J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Group of Figures with a Rearing Horse c.1799-1800

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Group of Figures with a Rearing Horse’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
A Group of Figures with a Rearing Horse c.1799–1800
D02089
Turner Bequest XLVI 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘60’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 60’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study, made with the page turned horizontally, and the drawing on folio 59 verso (D02088) seem to be related to the same Biblical pictures; either The Fifth Plague of Egypt exhibited in 1800 (Indianapolis Museum of Art),1 or alternatively to the lost picture of The Army of the Medes destroyed in the Desart by a Whirlwind, exhibited in 1802.2

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.10–12 no.13, pl.10 (colour).
2
Ibid., pp.13–15 no.15

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Group of Figures with a Rearing Horse c.1799–1800 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-group-of-figures-with-a-rearing-horse-r1179948, accessed 28 May 2025.