'Cottage Interior with Figures', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Cottage Interior with Figures

From Spithead Sketchbook

Turner Bequest C

Date 1807

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 118 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06585

Turner Bequest C 54 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 59 Verso:

Cottage Interior with Figures 1807

D06585
Turner Bequest C 54a

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Woman frying. Boy Looking. Grey W.B.| Cows at the door ... Children at tub. A Girl beating the barrel | G Bw ... BWy’ below image

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Turner’s notes, including comments on colour, suggest that he had a picture in mind. See Introduction to the sketchbook and note to folio 58 (D06583; Turner Bequest C 53) for his current interest in the rustic narrative pictures of David Wilkie. Folios 60 recto and verso and 61 verso (D06586, D06587, D06589; Turner Bequest C 55, 55a, 56a) also have sketches of cottage or farm interiors with figures.

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

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