'Reclining Female Nude', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Reclining Female Nude

From Lowther Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXIII

Date 1809

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 83 x 114 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D07923

Turner Bequest CXIII 46 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 46 Verso:

Reclining Female Nude 1809

D07923
Turner Bequest CXIII 46a

Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 114 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this is identical to the coloured study on folio 40 verso (D07912) save for a slight alteration to the position of the model’s outstretched left arm.

David Blayney Brown
July 2009

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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

Lowther Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest