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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Stags Feeding c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Stags Feeding’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Two Stags Feeding circa 1808
D06804
Turner Bequest CII 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘43’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CII 43’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. For the several sketches of stags in this sketchbook see note to folio 32 (D06782).

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Two Stags Feeding c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-two-stags-feeding-r1130897, accessed 24 April 2024.