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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Nymphs, Related to 'Apullia in Search of Appullus' c.1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Nymphs, Related to 'Apullia in Search of Appullus'’ c.1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
Studies of Nymphs, Related to ‘Apullia in Search of Appullus’ c.1813
D09978
Turner Bequest CXXXV 64a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 113 mm
Part watermark ‘mott | 11’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These separate sketches of a seated woman, and a kneeling woman who seems to turn to a third, barely indicated figure beyond, were not used directly for the painting Apullia in Search of Appullus (Tate N00495), exhibited in 1814;1 however, they clearly relate to it, falling among other, more directly relevant studies, as listed under folio 63 verso (D09976). In the finished composition a group of seated nymphs and shepherds appears in the left foreground.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.91–2 no.128, pl.134.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Studies of Nymphs, Related to ‘Apullia in Search of Appullus’ c.1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-studies-of-nymphs-related-to-apullia-in-search-of-appullus-r1147933, accessed 24 April 2024.