Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Head of a Bearded Man

?1797

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: None
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D41450
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIX 3 v

Catalogue entry

Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 this is presumably a head of Christ, and apparently related to the more developed study catalogued here as Tate D00722 (Turner Bequest XXIX Q). There is also a pothook in pencil, together with some paint smears.

The recto is D36627 (Turner Bequest CCCLXXIX 3).

1

See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.1242.

Technical notes:

The sheet has been folded approximately 35 mm from the bottom edge.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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