'Woman Stooping', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Woman Stooping

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

D06551

Turner Bequest C 31 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 32 Verso:

Woman Stooping 1807

D06551
Turner Bequest C 31a

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘C 31a’ top right, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. The woman appears to be gleaning, or perhaps bending to pick up vegetables in which case she may have been sketched in the market-place which Turner drew on folios 33 and 34 of the sketchbook (D06552, D06553; Turner Bequest C 32, 33).

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

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1802-18 Academician and professor

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Gifts and bequests

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