J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Commentary on Titian's 'Entombment of the Dead Christ' (Inscription by Turner), with Colour Trials 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Commentary on Titian's 'Entombment of the Dead Christ' (Inscription by Turner), with Colour Trials’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Commentary on Titian’s ‘Entombment of the Dead Christ’ (Inscription by Turner), with Colour Trials 1802
D04310
Turner Bequest LXXII 29a
Inscribed by Turner in ink (see folio 31 verso of this sketchbook, D04314), on white wove paper prepared with a pale reddish brown wash, 128 x 114 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–29a’ top right (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s copy of Titian’s picture, see folio 32 of this sketchbook (D04315). His comments here (written with the book inverted) conclude the analysis begun on folio 31 verso (D04314), for which see catalogue entry for a full transcription. The colour trials are of blue and red washes.

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Commentary on Titian’s ‘Entombment of the Dead Christ’ (Inscription by Turner), with Colour Trials 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2005, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-commentary-on-titians-entombment-of-the-dead-christ-r1129719, accessed 23 April 2024.