'?Tabley: Figures beside a Stream', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

?Tabley: Figures beside a Stream

From Tabley No.3 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CV

Date 1808

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 108 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D07004

Turner Bequest CV 19

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 22 Recto:

?Tabley: Figures beside a Stream 1808

D07004
Turner Bequest CV 19

Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 19’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For Turner’s visit to Tabley in 1808, see Introduction to the sketchbook, and for a series of sketches probably of the estate and the lake or Moat, note to folio 12 (D06994; Turner Bequest CV 10).

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

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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

Tabley No.3 Sketchbook

Tate Collection

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Joseph Mallord William Turner?Tabley: Figures beside a Stream 1808

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Turner's sketchbooks