Graphite and watercolour on paper
Liber Studiorum: Designs for Unpublished Plates: nos.72-91
Liber Studiorum: Designs for Unpublished Plates: nos.72-91
Liber Studiorum c.1806-24
Liber Studiorum c.1806-24
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Liber Studiorum 1807-1819 Watercolours
Vaughan Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Temple Aphaia at Aegina Temple Jupiter in Island Aegina
Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan 1900
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
classical
countries and continents
figure
goat
Greece, Aegina
hill
landscape
man-made landmarks (non-UK)
people
periods and styles
places
religious
religious
road
rocky
ruins
temple
Temple of Aphaia
townscapes / man-made features
wooded
<p>Known to Turner as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the great Doric temple at Aegina is now recognised as dedicated to the mother-goddess Aphaia. It was excavated by an Anglo-German team, including the architect C.R. Cockerell, in 1811. Turner was given a drawing of it by Byron's schoolfriend and fellow-student, Henry Gally Knight, and used it as the basis of paintings and drawings including this unused design for his compendium of landscape types, the 'Liber Studiorum'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina (‘The Temple of Jupiter in the Island of Aegina’)
support: 197 × 294 mm
Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan 1900
<p>Known to Turner as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the great Doric temple at Aegina is now recognised as dedicated to the mother-goddess Aphaia. It was excavated by an Anglo-German team, including the architect C.R. Cockerell, in 1811. Turner was given a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> of it by Byron's schoolfriend and fellow-student, Henry Gally Knight, and used it as the basis of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> and drawings including this unused design for his compendium of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> types, the 'Liber Studiorum'.</p>
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