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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Cow Lying Down; a Study of its Head c.1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Cow Lying Down; a Study of its Head’ c.1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
A Cow Lying Down; a Study of its Head c.1801
D03735
Turner Bequest LXII 13a
Pencil on white laid paper, 117 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. For a general discussion of the cattle which form the exclusive subject of this sketchbook, see the Introduction.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Cow Lying Down; a Study of its Head c.1801 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-a-cow-lying-down-a-study-of-its-head-r1178341, accessed 17 July 2024.