'Haymakers', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Haymakers

From River Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCVI

Date c.1807

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 92 x 163 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06052

Turner Bequest XCVI 65 c

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 67 Verso:

Haymakers circa 1807

D06052
Turner Bequest XCVI 65c

Pencil on white laid paper, 92 x 163 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue’ and ‘B’ on figure at left, and ‘grey’ on figure at centre

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. See comment to folio 66 verso (D06050) for the likelihood that this was drawn near Cassiobury Park.

John Ruskin complicated the numbering of the remaining folios in this book by giving this leaf a ‘c’ number, which Finberg followed.

David Blayney Brown
October 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.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

River Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest