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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Egyptian Headdress, Including Osiris with Atep Crown, a Shabti Figure, and a Bird c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Egyptian Headdress, Including Osiris with Atep Crown, a Shabti Figure, and a Bird’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
Studies of Egyptian Headdress, Including Osiris with Atep Crown, a Shabti Figure, and a Bird c.1799–1802
D04074
Turner Bequest LXIX 65a
Pencil and white chalk on blue laid paper, 210 x 135 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, these details of Egyptian design were presumably studied by Turner in the British Museum, with one of his Biblical ‘Plagues of Egypt’ subjects in mind. See also folios 66 verso (D04076) and 130 recto (D04150; Turner Bequest LXIX 131), and the Egyptian Details sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest LXVI).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Studies of Egyptian Headdress, Including Osiris with Atep Crown, a Shabti Figure, and a Bird c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-studies-of-egyptian-headdress-including-osiris-with-atep-r1177953, accessed 24 April 2024.