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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Notes on Nicolas Poussin (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes on Nicolas Poussin (Inscriptions by Turner)’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Recto:
Notes on Nicolas Poussin (Inscriptions by Turner) 1802
D04390
Turner Bequest LXXII 90
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry) on white wove paper, 114 x 128 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘90’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–88a’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s shorthand notes ‘Diogen | Adultery | Manna | Rebecca | Death’, written at top left of the leaf, refer to the titles of pictures by Poussin which he noted in more detail elsewhere in this sketchbook. These are: Landscape with Diogenes, for which – and for the Louvre Poussins in general – see folio 25 verso (D04302); The Woman Taken in Adultery, for which see folio 27 Tate (D04305); The Gathering of the Manna, for which see folio 26 verso (D04304); Eleazer and Rebecca at the Well, for which see chiefly folio 72 (D04367); and probably The Plague of Ashdod, for which also see folio 27.
Turner also seems to have drawn two small circles to right of his notes.
Verso:
Blank

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Notes on Nicolas Poussin (Inscriptions by Turner) 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-notes-on-nicolas-poussin-inscriptions-by-turner-r1129799, accessed 20 April 2024.