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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Windsor and Eton Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Male and Female Field Hands c.1806-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Male and Female Field Hands’ c.1806-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Male and Female Field Hands circa 1806–8
D06099
Turner Bequest XCVII 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 107 x 182 mm
Variously inscribed by Turner in pencil with initial letters ‘BC’, ‘G’, ‘W’ and ‘B’denoting colours, and ‘pale Green’ alongside the figure on the right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCVII 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 27 (D06098) for sketches of field hands in this sketchbook and their likely connection with Ploughing up Turnips near Slough (Tate N00486)1 exhibited at Turner’s Gallery in 1809.
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Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.66 no.89 (pl.99).
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David Blayney Brown
September 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Male and Female Field Hands c.1806–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-male-and-female-field-hands-r1130280, accessed 26 April 2024.