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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Classical Composition c.1816-17

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Classical Composition’ c.1816-17
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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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A Classical Composition circa 1816–17
D10346
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 3a
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See catalogue note to the recto (D10345), which has a slighter sketch with similar motifs including a statue on a pedestal.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Classical Composition c.1816–17 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-classical-composition-r1131575, accessed 21 May 2013.