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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Pigeons 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Pigeons’ 1801 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Four Pigeons 1801
D40779
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black ‘LIV’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight study is not mentioned in Finberg’s Inventory.1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, pp.136–40.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Four Pigeons 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-four-pigeons-r1178997, accessed 19 September 2024.