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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Old Woman Seated c.1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Old Woman Seated’ c.1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
An Old Woman Seated c.1794
D00300
Turner Bequest XX 29a
Pencil and watercolour on white laid paper, 152 x 99 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Folio Pencil ruler rubbr | Pencil | I Rubber -’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The list of drawing tools on this page, inverted along with the drawing relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, may be related to Turner’s activities as a teacher. The first record of any of his drawing pupils is in this book, on folio 17 recto (D00280), where a Major Frazer is noted as having contracted for eight lessons. See also the notes on folio 39 recto (D00318).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘An Old Woman Seated c.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-an-old-woman-seated-r1140693, accessed 26 April 2024.