Joseph Mallord William Turner

Commentary on Titian’s ‘Entombment of the Dead Christ’ (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: 129 × 114 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D04312
Turner Bequest LXXII 30 a

Catalogue entry

For Turner’s copy of Titian’s picture, see folio 32 of this sketchbook (D04315). His comments here (written with the book inverted) continue the analysis begun on folio 31 verso (D04314), for which see catalogue entry for a full transcription.

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Commentary on Titian’s ‘Entombment of the Dead Christ’ (Inscription by Turner)

1802

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