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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for a Landscape with Mercury and Argus 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for a Landscape with Mercury and Argus’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Verso:
Study for a Landscape with Mercury and Argus 1805
D40573
Turner Bequest
Pen and ink on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 150 x 258 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not noticed or numbered by Finberg, this is a slight continuation of the top of the study on folio 54 (D05575), for which see catalogue note for the subject.

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Study for a Landscape with Mercury and Argus 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-landscape-with-mercury-and-argus-r1129889, accessed 26 April 2024.