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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of the Composition of Claude's 'Arrival of Aeneas at Pallanteum' ?1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of the Composition of Claude's 'Arrival of Aeneas at Pallanteum'’ ?1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 121 Recto:
Study of the Composition of Claude’s ‘Arrival of Aeneas at Pallanteum’ ?1799
D04139
Turner Bequest LXIX 122
Gouache, coloured chalks and ink on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘122’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-122’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is a record (without figures) of the painting The Arrival of Aeneas at Pallanteum by Claude Lorrain (1604/5–1682) now in the Fairhaven collection, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire (National Trust). This was one of the two ‘Altieri’ Claudes that Turner is known to have seen in May 1799; the encounter is recorded by the artist Joseph Farington in his diary for 8 May.1
1
Kenneth Garlick and Angus Macintyre eds., The Diary of Joseph Farington, vol.IV, New Haven and London 1979, p.1219.
Verso:
There is a slight offset from folio 101 recto (D04117; Turner Bequest LXIX 102), indicating that the two pages were once bound consecutively.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of the Composition of Claude’s ‘Arrival of Aeneas at Pallanteum’ ?1799 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-the-composition-of-claudes-arrival-of-aeneas-at-r1178019, accessed 19 April 2024.