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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Windsor and Eton Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Plough, with Ploughman and Horses c.1806-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Plough, with Ploughman and Horses’ c.1806-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
A Plough, with Ploughman and Horses circa 1806–8
D06163
Turner Bequest XCVII 82a
Pencil on white wove paper, 107 x 182 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Left handle the highest’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XCVII 82a’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 27 (D06098) for sketches of field hands and work in this sketchbook and their likely connection with Ploughing up Turnips near Slough (Tate N00486)1 exhibited at Turner’s Gallery in 1809.

David Blayney Brown
September 2008

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Butlin and Joll 1984, p.66, no.89

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Plough, with Ploughman and Horses 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-a-plough-with-ploughman-and-horses-r1130344, accessed 25 April 2024.