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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Historical Subject: Groups of Figures c.1800-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Historical Subject: Groups of Figures’ c.1800-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Historical Subject: Groups of Figures circa 1800–7
D05171
Turner Bequest LXXXIV 5a
Pencil and pen and brown ink on white wove paper, 73 x 119 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXIV 5a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject, perhaps an Assembly of the Gods, continues on folio 5 of the sketchbook (D05172). No comparable group appears in any picture by Turner. The central group of figures with children or perhaps putti appears again on folio 19 (D05191).

David Blayney Brown
November 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Historical Subject: Groups of Figures c.1800–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2004, 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-historical-subject-groups-of-figures-r1178348, accessed 26 April 2024.