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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Figures and Oxen 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Figures and Oxen’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Studies of Figures and Oxen 1819
D13900
Turner Bequest CLXXI 22 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 88 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?sock]’, ‘G’,‘[?..]’, ‘[?Forli]’, ‘[?Forli]’, ‘Black | Yellow | Blue’, ‘Blue [?Skirt]’ within sketches. Also ‘B’, ‘G’, ‘R’ bottom right, parallel with bottom edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has filled this page with various swift, on-the-spot thumbnail studies of people and oxen, annotated with notes on colour and dress. Amongst the identifiable figures are a number of women carrying baskets on their heads.

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Studies of Figures and Oxen 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-studies-of-figures-and-oxen-r1138718, accessed 25 April 2024.