Graphite, pen and ink, and watercolour on paper
Liber Studiorum: The Frontispiece and Parts 1-4
Liber Studiorum: The Frontispiece and Parts 1-4
Liber Studiorum c.1806-24
Liber Studiorum c.1806-24
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Liber Studiorum 1807-1819 Watercolours
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>
Castle above Meadows
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: postures and motions
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
architecture
boy
castle
children
cow
field
fine arts and music
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, cowherd
hill
instrument, pipe
landscape
leisure and pastimes
military
music
music and entertainment
objects
people
sitting
sunshine
weather
wooded
work and occupations
<p>In his Liber Studiorum, Turner classified</p><p>his different treatments of landscape.</p><p>This subject was categorised ‘EP’, which probably meant ‘Elevated Pastoral’. The piper piping his tune suggests Turner wanted to capture the ideal Arcadian landscape of ancient Greece.</p><p>Blake did the same, but evoking the countryside of ancient Italy, in the illustrations to Thornton's Virgil shown</p><p>on the wall to the right. Through the words of Jerusalem Blake creates a comparable visionary ‘Elevated’ landscape for Albion and it inhabitants.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper unique graphite pen ink watercolour
6 December 2004 – 15 August 2005
2005-08-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-12-06
Blake and Jerusalem
Collection based display
The Castle above the Meadows
support: 184 × 262 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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<span class="text6">In his </span><span class="text15">Liber Studiorum</span><span class="text6">, Turner classified  </span>
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<span class="text6">his different treatments 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>.  </span>
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<span class="text6">This subject was categorised ‘EP’, which      probably meant ‘Elevated Pastoral’. The piper piping his tune      suggests Turner wanted to capture the ideal Arcadian landscape of ancient      Greece.  </span>
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<span class="text6">Blake did the same, but evoking the countryside of      ancient Italy, in the illustrations to Thornton's Virgil shown  </span>
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<span class="text7">on the wall to </span><span class="text17">the right.      Through the words</span><span class="text14"> of </span><span class="text16">Jerusalem</span><span class="text6"> Blake creates a comparable      visionary ‘</span><span class="text13">Elevated’ landscape for      Albion and</span><span class="text6"> it inhabitants.   </span>
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actions: postures and motions agriculture and fishing animals: mammals architecture boy castle children cow field fine arts and music herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, cowherd hill instrument, pipe landscape leisure and pastimes military music music and entertainment objects people sitting sunshine weather wooded work and occupations
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