Chalk on paper
Calais Pier Sketchbook
Calais Pier Sketchbook
History Painting c.1799-1807
History Painting c.1799-1807
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Calais Pier Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Composition a Picture Death Adonis
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: expressive
Adonis
adults
Aphrodite / Venus
birth to death
classical
classical myths: gods and heroes
death
embracing
female
group
groups
landscape
literature and fiction
man
nudes
Ovid, ‘Metamorphoses’
people
religion and belief
society
woman
wooded
paper unique chalk
9 October 2003 – 30 May 2004
2004-05-30
9 October 2003 – 11 January 2004
2004-01-11
2003-10-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-10-09
Turner and Venice
Exhibition
Composition Study for a Picture of ‘The Death of Adonis’
support: 436 × 271 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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Catalogue entry
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TURNER_CATALOGUE_TEXT_WORK
actions: expressive Adonis adults Aphrodite / Venus birth to death classical classical myths: gods and heroes death embracing female group groups landscape literature and fiction man nudes Ovid, ‘Metamorphoses’ people religion and belief society woman wooded
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