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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Antique Sculpture, Seen from the Front and Side c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Antique Sculpture, Seen from the Front and Side’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Verso:
An Antique Sculpture, Seen from the Front and Side c.1799–1802
D04076
Turner Bequest LXIX 66a
Pencil 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, the subject may be identified as a marble figure of Antinous in the British Museum; it seems to have been studied along with the Egyptian details on folio 65 verso (D04074). For other studies of Egyptian design see folio 130 recto (D04150; Turner Bequest LXIX 131) and the Egyptian Details sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest LXVI).
At the gutter is a slight continuation of the figure study on folio 67 recto opposite (D04077); there is also some offsetting of white chalk from that page.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘An Antique Sculpture, Seen from the Front and Side 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-an-antique-sculpture-seen-from-the-front-and-side-r1177955, accessed 14 May 2024.