'Studies of Figures and of Fairground Tents and Banners', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Studies of Figures and of Fairground Tents and Banners

From Studies of Figures and Fairground Settings

Date ?1794

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 213 x 277 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D00380

Turner Bequest XXIII F

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Studies of Figures and of Fairground Tents and Banners ?1794

D00380
Turner Bequest XXIII F

Pencil on white wove paper, 213 x 277 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘XXIII F’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXIII – F’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The subject matter and style of these studies link the sheet with the Marford Mill sketchbook (for example Tate D00273; Turner Bequest XX 11); compare the smear of oil paint with the verso of Tate D00298 (Turner Bequest XX 28) in the same sketchbook. An apparently related sheet is Tate D00383 (Turner Bequest XXIII I); both may be connected to the fairground scene in the watercolour of Woolverhampton, Staffordshire that Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796 (Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum).1

The verso is D40051.

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.315 no.139, pl.23 (colour).

Technical notes:

The sheet has been folded vertically down the centre. There is a smear of dark green oil paint at the lower right.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.