Joseph Mallord William Turner

Study for ‘The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides’

1805

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Hesperides (1) Sketchbook
Medium
Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 171 × 262 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05781
Turner Bequest XCIII 9

Catalogue entry

See note to folio 1 verso of the sketchbook (D05767) for its various sketches and studies related to The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides exhibited at the British Institution in 1806 (Tate N00477).1 This slight sketch continues the experiments with composition and background begun on folio 8 (D05779); for other studies of the dragon visible here, see the recto and folio 3 verso (D05771).

David Blayney Brown
October 2007

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.44–6 no.57 (pl.67).

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