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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Scene, Perhaps from the Napoleonic Wars c.1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Scene, Perhaps from the Napoleonic Wars’ c.1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Battle Scene, Perhaps from the Napoleonic Wars c.1801
D17164
Turner Bequest CXCV a N
Pencil on coarse white wove paper, 714 x 1060 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Less obviously a contemporary battle scene than Tate D17163 (Turner Bequest CXCV a M), this sheet may show a subject from ancient history. Neither is mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1
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See the ‘Miscellaneous Black and White’ grouping in A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, pp.597–8, CXCV a A–L, c.1810–20, with which the present work was associated when assigned a Turner Bequest number.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Battle Scene, Perhaps from the Napoleonic Wars c.1801 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-battle-scene-perhaps-from-the-napoleonic-wars-r1178482, accessed 25 April 2024.