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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sportsman with a Gun and two Gun Dogs on the Moors near Hall Beck Gill c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun and two Gun Dogs on the Moors near Hall Beck Gill’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 299 Verso:
A Sportsman with a Gun and two Gun Dogs on the Moors near Hall Beck Gill c.1816
D11902
Turner Bequest CXLIX 299a
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 93 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn as Turner worked through the sketchbook from the back, and thus in reverse to the present numbering, this is the right half of a double-page spread continued from folio 300 recto (D11903), depicting open moorland near Hall Beck Gill (see notes to folio 302 verso; D11908), the subject of contiguous sketches. To the right a lone man sits with his gun across his lap, evidently resting from a shoot while his dogs sit nearby. The dogs are similar to those sketched on folios 82 recto and 83 recto (D11677, D11678).

David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun and two Gun Dogs on the Moors near Hall Beck Gill 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-a-sportsman-with-a-gun-and-two-gun-dogs-on-the-moors-near-r1144047, accessed 25 April 2024.