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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1923.34
People
Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)
Title
Study of a Gurnard
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1840
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299130

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on blue-gray wove paper, laid down
Dimensions
19 x 27.4 cm (7 1/2 x 10 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1923
Object Number
1923.34
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Hamilton, Turner: The Late Seascapes, exh. cat., Yale University Press/Sterling and Francine Clark Art Instiitute (New Haven and London/ Williamstown, 2003), p. 107, fig. 63 (color)
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 90, 96, pl. 54

Exhibition History

  • Turner: The Late Seascapes, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 06/14/2003 - 09/07/2003; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, 10/31/2003 - 01/25/2004; Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 02/19/2004 - 05/23/2004
  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

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