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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Studies: An Eagle Standing on a Ram's Head; a Male Head with Ram's Horns c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Studies: An Eagle Standing on a Ram's Head; a Male Head with Ram's Horns’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Verso:
Two Studies: An Eagle Standing on a Ram’s Head; a Male Head with Ram’s Horns c.1799–1800
D03907
Turner Bequest LXVI 72a
Pencil, pen and black ink on blue laid paper, 166 x 83 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXVI – 72a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Presumably made at the same time as the other drawings of ancient artefacts on folios 18 recto, 72 recto, 73 recto, 74 recto and verso, and 75 recto (D03850, D03906, D03908–D03911), these studies seem to record antiquities from the Roman world rather than the Egyptian.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Studies: An Eagle Standing on a Ram’s Head; a Male Head with Ram’s Horns c.1799–1800 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-two-studies-an-eagle-standing-on-a-rams-head-a-male-head-r1180146, accessed 27 April 2024.