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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Face 1791

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Face’ 1791
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
?A Face 1791
D40735
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 185 x 263 mm
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slight sketch, not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue.1 There are also grey wash and colour trials, with partial offsetting from watercolour on the opposite page (D00086), due to flooding.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.9.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?A Face 1791 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-face-r1140136, accessed 19 April 2024.