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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Tabley: Men Standing in Water beneath Trees 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Tabley: Men Standing in Water beneath Trees’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
?Tabley: Men Standing in Water beneath Trees 1808
D06994
Turner Bequest CV 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s visit to Tabley in 1808, see Introduction to the sketchbook. In the context of a sequence of views of the house and estate beginning on folio 2 (D06985) this sketch and others on folios 13–16, 18, 20 (D06996–D06998, D07000, D07005; Turner Bequest CV 11, 12, 14, 13, 15, 19) probably represent estate workers, sportsmen or fishermen around the wooded edges of the Moat or other waterways in the grounds.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Tabley: Men Standing in Water beneath Trees 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-tabley-men-standing-in-water-beneath-trees-r1134514, accessed 24 April 2024.