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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Wey, Guildford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape, perhaps with Diana and Actaeon 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape, perhaps with Diana and Actaeon’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Landscape, perhaps with Diana and Actaeon 1805
D06214
Turner Bequest XCVIII 24
Pen and ink and a little brown wash on white laid paper, 117 x 182 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘24’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCVIII 24’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A variant of the landscape composition with Diana and Actaeon drawn on folio 23 of the sketchbook (D06213), for which see catalogue note for further comment. Here the narrative is less clearly defined and as Hill points out, the wooded setting is also comparable to sketches for The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides exhibited in 1806 (Tate N00477).1
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Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.44–6 no.57 (pl.67).
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David Blayney Brown
July 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Landscape, perhaps with Diana and Actaeon 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, 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-landscape-perhaps-with-diana-and-actaeon-r1130398, accessed 22 September 2024.