One of Twenty Vignettes - The Soldier's Dream
About this artwork
The Scottish National Gallery has the only set of Turner’s literary vignettes that remain together in one collection, his twenty illustrations for ‘The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell’ . These were made to be engraved in Edward Moxon’s edition of Campbell’s poems, published in 1837. A copy of this book is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery Print Room. The soldier is shown in the upper half of the vignette, leaning on his musket among his slumbering comrades, beneath a crescent moon. As he sleeps, the soldier dreams of ‘the pleasant fields’ of his homeland and of his wife and children, pictured below. Around him on the battlefield cannons and fires can be seen; below Turner depicts his homecoming.
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artist:Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) English
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title:One of Twenty Vignettes - The Soldier's Dream
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date created:About 1835
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materials:Watercolour over pencil on paper
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measurements:11.50 x 8.00 cm
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credit line:Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Gallery of Scotland, 1988
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accession number:D 5163
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner
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