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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Female Head and Bust, a Male Head with Ram's Horns, a Bull's Head and a Bird's Head c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Female Head and Bust, a Male Head with Ram's Horns, a Bull's Head and a Bird's Head’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Recto:
A Female Head and Bust, a Male Head with Ram’s Horns, a Bull’s Head and a Bird’s Head c.1799–1800
D03908
Turner Bequest LXVI 73
Pencil and ink on blue laid paper, 166 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Apis’ centre right
Inscribed in pencil ‘73’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘73’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXVI – 73’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Compare the drawing and inscription on folio 72 verso opposite (D03907).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Female Head and Bust, a Male Head with Ram’s Horns, a Bull’s Head and a Bird’s Head 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-a-female-head-and-bust-a-male-head-with-rams-horns-a-bulls-r1180147, accessed 26 April 2024.