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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Woodcock Shooting Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for a Classical Picture c.1812-13

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for a Classical Picture’ c.1812-13
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Study for a Classical Picture c.1812–13
D09113
Turner Bequest CXXIX 39
Ink on white wove paper, 178 x 110 mm
Trace of inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘39 [?]’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CXXIX 39’ bottom left, descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a series of studies for classical landscape subjects on an upright format. See notes to folio 20 verso, D09082, the first in the series.
Verso:
Blank, except for some splashes of ink offset from the drawing on folio 40 (D09114), opposite.

David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Study for a Classical Picture c.1812–13 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-for-a-classical-picture-r1146835, accessed 23 April 2024.