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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Study for 'Apullia in Search of Appullus' c.1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Study for 'Apullia in Search of Appullus'’ c.1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Verso:
A Study for ‘Apullia in Search of Appullus’ c.1813
D09982
Turner Bequest CXXXV 66a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 113 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a rough overall compositional study for the painting Apullia in Search of Appullus (Tate N00495), exhibited at the British Institution in 1814;1 for more details and related studies on adjacent pages, see under folio 63 verso (D09976).2 The present drawing continues a little way onto folio 67 recto opposite (D09983). There is a similar, heavily shaded variant on folios 67 verso–68 recto (D09984, D09985).
1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.91–2 no.128, pl.134.
2
See also Butlin, Wilson and Gage 1974, p.76; Nicholson 1980, p.683 note 22; Butlin and Joll 1984, p.92; and Butlin 2001, p.8.
Technical notes:
There is scattered offsetting from the ink inscription on the opposite page.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Study for ‘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-a-study-for-apullia-in-search-of-appullus-r1147937, accessed 26 April 2024.