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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Trèves to Cochem and Coblenz to Mayence ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Soldier and Peasant Men and Women 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Soldier and Peasant Men and Women’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
A Soldier and Peasant Men and Women 1839
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Turner Bequest CCXC 23 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘B Colar’, ‘Red’, ‘W’ (all inverted) at bottom; ‘Red’, ‘Red’ (all inverted) bottom towards centre; ‘P’ (inverted) centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made quick sketches of people encountered on his journey: a soldier in uniform, two women and a man. He has annotated the drawings with colours such as ‘Red’ ‘W’ for white and ‘B Colar’ (?black collar) to indicate the colours of parts of the figures’ clothing.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Soldier and Peasant Men and Women 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-soldier-and-peasant-men-and-women-r1150681, accessed 23 April 2024.