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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Composition Study: A Fierce Storm (or Battle) over a Wide Plain, Watched by Figures on a Slope in the Foreground 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Composition Study: A Fierce Storm (or Battle) over a Wide Plain, Watched by Figures on a Slope in the Foreground’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
?Composition Study: A Fierce Storm (or Battle) over a Wide Plain, Watched by Figures on a Slope in the Foreground 1798
D01563
Turner Bequest XL 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘59’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing continues on folio 60 verso opposite (D01562; Turner Bequest XL 58a), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Composition Study: A Fierce Storm (or Battle) over a Wide Plain, Watched by Figures on a Slope in the Foreground 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-composition-study-a-fierce-storm-or-battle-over-a-wide-plain-r1173802, accessed 25 April 2024.