'Ploughing Scene, with Horses', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Ploughing Scene, with Horses

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

D06716

Turner Bequest CI 89

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 42 Recto:

Ploughing Scene, with Horses 1807

D06716
Turner Bequest CI 89

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CI 89’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CI 89’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

See note to folio 40 (D06719; Turner Bequest CI 92) for Finberg’s allocation of this leaf to the Boats, Ice sketchbook and its subsequent inclusion here. The paper is badly discoloured from exposure.

Verso:

Blank, with traces of gum at the corners from having been laid down

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.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Spithead Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

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Turner's sketchbooks