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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for the Figure of Jason c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for the Figure of Jason’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Study for the Figure of Jason c.1799–1802
D04908
Turner Bequest LXXXI 7
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and Strasburg lily
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–7’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is a study for the single figure of Jason in the mythological painting of that title, shown at the Royal Academy in 1802 (Tate N00471).1 A tentative sketch of the same figure is on folio 1 recto (D04902; Turner Bequest LXXXI 1); see also folio 14 verso (D04929; Turner Bequest LXXXI 28).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.18 no.19, pl.15.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study for the Figure of Jason c.1799–1802 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-for-the-figure-of-jason-r1178112, accessed 20 April 2024.