Joseph Mallord William Turner

Studies of Animals: The Head of a Donkey; the Hind Legs of a Horse or Pony; a Pig

?1793

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Drawings and Watercolours Connected with the Welsh and Marches Tours
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 340 × 227 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D00367
Turner Bequest XXII N

Catalogue entry

Both the head of the donkey and the pig are drawn twice. The same pig is apparently the subject of studies on a sheet in a private collection; and compare the group of girl and pigs in the finished watercolour of Valle Crucis Abbey (Tate D00703; Turner Bequest XXVIII R).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in a later hand ‘168’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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