Joseph Mallord William Turner

Study for a Classical Landscape: Similar to ‘Mercury and Herse’

1805

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Studies for Pictures: Isleworth Sketchbook
Medium
Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 258 x 150 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05585
Turner Bequest XC 59

Catalogue entry

For Mercury and Herse (on the London art market in 2005)1 and related drawings in this sketchbook see folio 57 (D05581). Butlin and Joll express reservations about a connection with this drawing.
Finberg credits an inscription by Turner, citing other possible classical themes, to the ‘margin’ of this drawing but it is fact opposite it on folio 58 verso (D05584).
1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.80–2 no.114 (pl.122); Sotheby’s sale, 5 July 2005, lot 40.
Verso:
Blank

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

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