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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Figures, possibly after a Classical Relief 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Figures, possibly after a Classical Relief’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Two Figures, possibly after a Classical Relief 1824
D41501
Turner Bequest CCXVIII 7v
Watercolour, pencil and chalk on white wove paper, 220 x 291 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘C[?h/t] – l – ch’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At top left Turner has made a summary squared-off sketch of two figures, ‘possibly from a classical relief seen at Trier’.1 To the right of this is an inscription reading ‘C[?h/t] – l – ch’.
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Powell 1995, Appendix p.212.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Figures, possibly after a Classical Relief 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-two-figures-possibly-after-a-classical-relief-r1174884, accessed 20 May 2024.