By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
Turner 's Apollo and Daphne, oil on canvas, exhibited Royal Academy 1837, Turner Bequest, Tate Britain ( Wilton P369). The catalogue carried verses from Ovid's Metamorphoses, in the translation by John Dryden. Ruskin gives a long description of the picture in his Notes on the Turner Gallery at Marlborough House (1857) ( Works, 13.148-150).
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
The Story of Apollo and Daphne 1837
Oil on Mahogany, 110x199cm
Exhibitions: RA 1837 (130)
Engraving:
Engraved by E. Brandard, 1859
Steel engraving, 14.3x26.8cm
Engraved for the Turner Gallery, 1859-1875
Provenance: Turner Bequest 1856 (27, 'Apollo and Daphne'); tranferred to Tate Gallery, 1929
Collection: Tate Gallery, London