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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Seated Woman c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Seated Woman’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Recto:
A Seated Woman circa 1816
D10552
Turner Bequest CXL 72
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘72’ top left, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXL 72’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This figure is probably a variant of one on folio 72 recto of the sketchbook (D10536; Turner Bequest CXL 65), and thus related to a seated figure lower left of centre in the Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (Tate N00499)1 exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817. There are various drawings and drafts of verse connected with the picture in this sketchbook; see notes to folio 4 (D10416).
There are splashes of oil or varnish on this leaf.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed. 1984, pp.100–1 no.135 (pl.137).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Seated Woman c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, 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-seated-woman-r1131546, accessed 19 April 2024.