In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 186 × 230 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D27595
Turner Bequest CCLXXX 78
Display caption
As well as illustrations for the poetry of Samuel Rogers and Sir Walter Scott, in the early 1830s Turner also made a small group of vignette designs for John Macrone's 1835 edition of Milton's 'Poetical Works'. Three of these were engraved as illustrations to the epic poem 'Paradise Lost' (no.54). No.53, meanwhile, represents the famous episode in Book One of that poem when Satan summons his legions on the burning lake, although it was never worked up into a finished design. Many other broad colour layouts for vignette illustrations exist in the Turner Bequest.
Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Seated and Standing Figures
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vignette Study for ‘Kosciusko’, for Campbell’s ‘Poetical Works’
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vignette Study for ‘Kosciusko’, for Campbell’s ‘Poetical Works’
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vignette Study for ‘Kosciusko’, for Campbell’s ‘Poetical Works’
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vignette Study, possibly of a Conflagration; for Campbell’s ‘Poetical Works’
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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Hurricane in the Desert (The Simoom), for Rogers’s ‘Poems’
c.1830–2 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner A Study of Firelight, Perhaps in a Glass Workshop, Venice
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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Jetty, ?with a Steamer at Sea in the Distance
c.1842–5 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Goldau, with the Lake of Zug in the Distance: Sample Study
c.1842–3 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fête Day in Zurich: Early Morning: Sample Study
c.1845 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Castel Mareccio (Schloss Maretsch) beside the Torrente Talvera (Talferbach), with Bolzano (Bozen) Cathedral in the Distance
1840 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Angel Standing in the Sun
exhibited 1846 -
After Joseph Mallord William Turner The Fall of the Rebel Angels, engraved by Edward Goodall
published 1835 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Temptation on the Pinnacle
c.1834
