Rizpah protecting the bodies of her murdered sons Armoni and Mephibosheth. Watercolour after J.M.W. Turner.

  • Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
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Rizpah protecting the bodies of her murdered sons Armoni and Mephibosheth. Watercolour after J.M.W. Turner. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bible II Samuel, chap. 21. Rizpah is shown as a seated veiled mourning female figure in a landscape holding out a burning torch towards approaching birds, with the legs of a dead figure and a skeletal ribcage visible behind her

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1 painting : watercolour, with white highlights ; image 17.5 x 25.7 cm

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Lettering

Annotated in pencil on the mount with an instruction to the staff of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in the hand of H.S. Wellcome: H M M identify (note skeletons etc.)

References note

Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, An exhibition of prints from Turner's 'liber studiorum', London 1975 (same composition in J.M.W. Turner, Liber studiorum plate 46)

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Wellcome Collection 33553i

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