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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Spithead Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Interior of a Barn: Woman Cutting Turnips, Cows at the Entrance 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Interior of a Barn: Woman Cutting Turnips, Cows at the Entrance’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Interior of a Barn: Woman Cutting Turnips, Cows at the Entrance 1807
D06587
Turner Bequest C 55a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W. cutting Turnips. Interior of a Barn Cows eating at the Entrance. | cat. W. st yellow B.B.’ below image
Stamped in black ‘C 55a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 59 verso of the sketchbook (D06585; Turner Bequest C 54a). As in the former sketch, Turner’s notes include colour references and suggest he had pictures in mind.

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Interior of a Barn: Woman Cutting Turnips, Cows at the Entrance 1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2006, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-interior-of-a-barn-woman-cutting-turnips-cows-at-the-r1139121, accessed 19 April 2024.