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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Flowers and Plants, and a View of ?Jesi; and Two Caricature Sketches of Heads 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Flowers and Plants, and a View of ?Jesi; and Two Caricature Sketches of Heads’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Studies of Flowers and Plants, and a View of ?Jesi; and Two Caricature Sketches of Heads 1819
D13918
Turner Bequest CLXXI 31 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 88 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Laffiare] | Red flower | [?Sledge] [?Jesi]’ top right, ‘Red w [...]’ and ‘Sheep Bulls Box’, upper left-hand corner, ‘Blue Red | and Yellow [...]’ and ‘[?cal...]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains several rough studies of flowers, plants and leaves, accompanied with various annotated notes on colour. There is also a small landscape view which Turner’s inscription suggests may depict Jesi near Ancona, see also folio 36 (D13928). Also on the sheet, parallel with the right-hand edge, are caricature sketches of two male heads in profile.

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Studies of Flowers and Plants, and a View of ?Jesi; and Two Caricature Sketches of Heads 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-flowers-and-plants-and-a-view-of-jesi-and-two-r1138736, accessed 23 September 2024.