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?Sketch for ‘Dido Building Carthage’ by Joseph Mallord William Turner — VisualArtsDB

?Sketch for ‘Dido Building Carthage’

?Sketch for ‘Dido Building Carthage’

Joseph Mallord William Turner

1805

Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions: support: 150 x 258 mm
Museum: Tate

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The Western Sky over Hawksworth Moor

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Persenbeug Castle: (1) From across the Danube, with Boat; (2) With Ybbs Opposite, Looking down the Danube

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Camber Castle

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Cottages, with a Ship Moored beside the Estuary of the Mawddach near Barmouth

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Four Sketches of Werfenstein and the Strudel

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View up the Sambre at Namur, Showing the Bridge, the Old Mill (through its Centre Arch) and the ‘rampe verte’ up to the Citadel

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A Wooded Hillside and Wide Valley, in Devon or Yorkshire

A Wooded Hillside and Wide Valley, in Devon or Yorkshire

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1814