1923.34: Study of a Gurnard

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

Permissions

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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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