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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Studies of Figures: Two Women with a Jug, Watching a Man Kneeling to Play Marbles; Studies of the Man's Hands and Left Leg 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Studies of Figures: Two Women with a Jug, Watching a Man Kneeling to Play Marbles; Studies of the Man's Hands and Left Leg’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Two Studies of Figures: Two Women with a Jug, Watching a Man Kneeling to Play Marbles; Studies of the Man’s Hands and Left Leg 1794
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Turner Bequest XX 20
Pencil on white laid paper, 152 x 99 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XX 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The kneeling man seems to be a study for the figure of a youth shying at coconuts in the centre foreground of Woolverhampton, Staffordshire (Wolverhampton Art Gallery).1 See the study made at Wolverhampton in the Matlock sketchbook, 11 f.21 recto (D00229).
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.315 no.139, pl.23 (colour).
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Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Studies of Figures: Two Women with a Jug, Watching a Man Kneeling to Play Marbles; Studies of the Man’s Hands and Left Leg 1794 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-two-studies-of-figures-two-women-with-a-jug-watching-a-man-r1140678, accessed 16 April 2024.