J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Commentary on Domenichino's 'Combat of Hercules and Achelous' (Inscription by Turner) 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Commentary on Domenichino's 'Combat of Hercules and Achelous' (Inscription by Turner)’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
Commentary on Domenichino’s ‘Combat of Hercules and Achelous’ (Inscription by Turner) 1802
D04373
Turner Bequest LXXII 76a
Inscribed by Turner in black ink (see main catalogue entry) on white wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 128 x 114 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–76a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Domenichino’s picture and Turner’s copy see folio 77 of this sketchbook (D04374).
Turner’s comments here read:
The Companion | Hercules fighting with Achelous | poor as to composition and effect | the light fritter’d by the large tree unfor | tunate as to form upon the whole | a very poor specimen of Domenichio | talents yet there is a good tone | of daylight and | the figures are introduced | with spirit and are of great value to | the picture.

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Commentary on Domenichino’s ‘Combat of Hercules and Achelous’ (Inscription by Turner) 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2005, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-commentary-on-domenichinos-combat-of-hercules-and-achelous-r1129782, accessed 14 May 2024.