Joseph Mallord William Turner

Commentary on Titian’s ‘Christ Crowned with Thorns’ (Inscription by Turner)

1802

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 128 × 114 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D04338
Turner Bequest LXXII 51

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See folio 52 of this sketchbook (D04340) for Titian’s picture and Turner’s copy. Turner’s remarks here (written with the book inverted) conclude those begun on the verso of this leaf (D04339), for which see catalogue note for a full transcription.

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

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Commentary on Titian’s ‘Christ Crowned with Thorns’ (Inscription by Turner)

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