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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for a Picture of Carthage 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for a Picture of Carthage’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 102 Verso:
Study for a Picture of Carthage 1816
D11034
Turner Bequest CXLIV 102a
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For historical studies in this sketchbook see Introduction and notes to folio 95 verso (D11023). For a presumably related drawing, leading to the painting The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (Tate N00499)1 which Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817, see folio 101 verso (D11032).

David Hill
January 2009

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Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.100–1 no.135 (pl.137).

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Study for a Picture of Carthage 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-for-a-picture-of-carthage-r1144223, accessed 20 September 2024.