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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Man's Head with Beehive-Shaped Headdress c.1799-1800

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Man's Head with Beehive-Shaped Headdress’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
A Man’s Head with Beehive-Shaped Headdress c.1799–1800
D03911
Turner Bequest LXVI 75
Pencil and ink on blue laid paper, 166 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Persian’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘75’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXVI – 75’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like the study of a warrior, perhaps a Parthian, on folio 67 verso (D03901), this may be connected with the lost painting of The Army of the Medes Destroyed in the Desart by a Whirlwind,1 which Turner showed at the Royal Academy in 1801.
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Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.13–15 no.15.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Man’s Head with Beehive-Shaped Headdress 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-mans-head-with-beehive-shaped-headdress-r1180150, accessed 24 April 2024.