'A Nude Woman, Standing, One Arm Raised to her Head, Seen from the Left', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Nude Woman, Standing, One Arm Raised to her Head, Seen from the Left

From Richmond Hill; Hastings to Margate Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXL

Date c.1816

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 155 x 95 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D10422

Turner Bequest CXL 7

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Richmond Hill; Hastings to Margate Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 7 Recto:

A Nude Woman, Standing, One Arm Raised to her Head, Seen from the Left circa 1816

D10422
Turner Bequest CXL 7

Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘7’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXL 7’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For life studies in this sketchbook see note to folio 5 (D10418). This figure is drawn from different angles on folios 5 and 6 (D10418, D10410) while there is a separate detail of her head, without the arm, on 6 verso (D10421).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1810s

Richmond Hill; Hastings to Margate Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest