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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 6 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Gun Dogs c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Gun Dogs’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Recto:
Two Gun Dogs c.1816
D11678
Turner Bequest CXLIX 83
Pencil on white wove paper, 93 x 149 mm
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 83’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The heads of these two seated dogs are studied here particularly closely. Like the adjacent drawing on folio 82 recto (D11677) this is probably related to the series of sketches of shoots on moorland near Farnley Hall, the seat of Turner’s Yorkshire friend and patron Walter Fawkes, at the end of the sketchbook (running from the back, folios 302 verso to 296 recto, D11908 to D11897).
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Gun Dogs c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-gun-dogs-r1143823, accessed 26 April 2024.