A Confused Mass of Figures: Study for ‘The Army of the Medes Destroyed in the Desert by a Whirlwind’

Joseph Mallord William Turner

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A Confused Mass of Figures: Study for ‘The Army of the Medes Destroyed in the Desert by a Whirlwind’

Joseph Mallord William Turner

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner
Date: c.1799–1805
Movement: Romanticism · English painting
Medium: Chalk on paper

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, A Confused Mass of Figures: Study for ‘The Army of the Medes Destroyed in the Desert by a Whirlwind’, c.1799–1805, Chalk on paper, Tate, London.

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A Confused Mass of Figures: Study for ‘The Army of the Medes Destroyed in the Desert by a Whirlwind’

More works by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Folly Bridge and Bacon’s Tower, Oxford

View of Nuneham Courtenay from the Thames

Eton College from the River

Works in the same movement

Mrs. James Pulham Sr. (Frances Amys, ca. 1766–1856)

Stoke-by-Nayland

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

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