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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fallen Tree: ?for 'The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides' 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fallen Tree: ?for 'The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides'’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
A Fallen Tree: ?for ‘The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides’ 1805
D05815
Turner Bequest XCIII 29a
Pencil and pen ink on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 171 x 262 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is perhaps an idea for the fallen tree in the right foreground of 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 see especially folio 1 verso of the sketchbook (D05767). The motif is incorporated in the outline of the whole composition on folio 28 verso (D05813) and is explored again, with added black chalk, on folio 3 (D05770).

David Blayney Brown
October 2007

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

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Fallen Tree: ?for ‘The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides’ 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2007, 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-a-fallen-tree-for-the-goddess-of-discord-choosing-the-apple-r1130037, accessed 20 April 2024.