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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Academy Study of a Kneeling Male Nude Holding a Sword and Gigantic Decapitated Head 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Academy Study of a Kneeling Male Nude Holding a Sword and Gigantic Decapitated Head’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Academy Study of a Kneeling Male Nude Holding a Sword and Gigantic Decapitated Head 1798
D01505
Turner Bequest XL 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing continues on folio 26 verso opposite (D01504; Turner Bequest XL 24a), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Academy Study of a Kneeling Male Nude Holding a Sword and Gigantic Decapitated Head 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-academy-study-of-a-kneeling-male-nude-holding-a-sword-and-r1173744, accessed 25 April 2024.