
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Chalk and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 416 × 256 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D00062
Turner Bequest V I
Display caption
Turner began his formal artistic education in 1789 when, at the age of fourteen, he became a student at the Royal Academy schools. All students were required to spend at least the first three years drawing from plaster casts of famous classical statues. They were then
allowed to graduate to the Life Class.
This is one of the studies Turner made during his time at the Plaster Academy. It was drawn from a cast of a marble statue in the Vatican. Meleager was a Greek hero and a member of the crew of
Jason's famous ship, the Argo.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of the Jason
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?1792 -
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?1792 -
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?1793 -
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?1791 -
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?1793 -
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