Composition Study: Figures beneath a Tree, Probably for the Projected Composition of the ‘Death of Adonis’

Joseph Mallord William Turner

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Composition Study: Figures beneath a Tree, Probably for the Projected Composition of the ‘Death of Adonis’

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, Composition Study: Figures beneath a Tree, Probably for the Projected Composition of the ‘Death of Adonis’, c.1799–1805, Chalk on paper, Tate, London.

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Composition Study: Figures beneath a Tree, Probably for the Projected Composition of the ‘Death of Adonis’

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