Joseph Mallord William TurnerStudies of a Marine's Uniform 1805

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Artist
Title
Studies of a Marine's Uniform
From Nelson Sketchbook
Turner Bequest LXXXIX
Date 1805
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssupport: 184 x 114 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05449
Turner Bequest LXXXIX 4
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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Studies of a Marine’s Uniform 1805
D05449
Turner Bequest LXXXIX 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘A Marine’ and ‘Undress a red jacket | sometimes a Red Shirt’ lower centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXIX 4’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has drawn a whole figure, facing to front, a rear view of the jacket and a detail of the sleeve. Finberg misread the later part of the inscription as ‘a red fancy shirt’. 124 Marines were stationed on the Victory at Trafalgar.
Verso:
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David Blayney Brown
March 2006

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