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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for a Classical Landscape 1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Study for a Classical Landscape 1805
D05559
Turner Bequest XC 44
Pen and ink on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 258 x 150 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘44’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XC 44’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This composition extends to the left on folio 43 verso (D05558), for which see catalogue note, and slightly to the right on folio 45 (D05560).
Verso:
Blank

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Study for a Classical Landscape 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2007, 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-study-for-a-classical-landscape-r1129872, accessed 29 March 2024.