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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Chemistry and Apuleia Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dancing and Kneeling or Seated Nymphs, Related to 'Apullia in Search of Appullus' c.1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dancing and Kneeling or Seated Nymphs, Related to 'Apullia in Search of Appullus'’ c.1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
Dancing and Kneeling or Seated Nymphs, Related to ‘Apullia in Search of Appullus’ c.1813
D09981
Turner Bequest CXXXV 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 113 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘66’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CXXXV – 66’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of seated or kneeling figures is a continuation of the main group of standing or dancing figures on folio 65 verso opposite (D09980). In the painting Apullia in Search of Appullus (Tate N00495), exhibited at the British Institution in 1814,1 two seated women are seen from behind to the left of the dancing group, and are static by comparison with the unresolved dynamism of the present drawing. For related studies on adjacent pages, see under folio 63 verso (D09976).2

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.91–2 no.128, pl.134.
2
See also Butlin, Wilson and Gage 1974, p.76; Butlin and Joll 1984, p.92; and Butlin 2001, p.8.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dancing and Kneeling or Seated Nymphs, Related to ‘Apullia in Search of Appullus’ c.1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-dancing-and-kneeling-or-seated-nymphs-related-to-apullia-in-r1147936, accessed 25 April 2024.