'Study for a Classical Landscape: Similar to 'Mercury and Herse'', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Study for a Classical Landscape: Similar to 'Mercury and Herse'

From Studies for Pictures: Isleworth Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XC

Date 1805

MediumPen and ink on paper

Dimensionssupport: 258 x 150 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D05582

Turner Bequest XC 57 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 57 Verso:

Study for a Classical Landscape: Similar to ‘Mercury and Herse’ 1805

D05582
Turner Bequest XC 57a

Pen and ink on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 258 x 150 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For Mercury and Herse (on the London art market in 2005)1and related drawings in this sketchbook see entry for the recto of this sheet (D05581). Butlin and Joll express reservations about a connection with this drawing. However, it shows a procession in the foreground which might anticipate the picture.

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.80–2 no.114 (pl.122); Sotheby’s sale, 5 July 2005, lot 40..

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.