'Figures by a Shady Pool', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Figures by a Shady Pool

From Wey, Guildford Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCVIII

Date 1805

Dimensionssupport: 182 x 117 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06361

Turner Bequest XCVIII 138

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 138 Recto:

Figures by a Shady Pool 1805

D06361
Turner Bequest XCVIII 138

Pen and ink and brownish grey wash on white laid paper, 182 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘138’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCVIII 138’ bottom left, descending vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This landscape is classically composed, and similar to those at the other end of the sketchbook, from folio 1 (D06180).

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

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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 1800s

Wey, Guildford Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest