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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Woodcock Shooting Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sportsman with a Gun c.1812-13

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun’ c.1812-13
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
A Sportsman with a Gun c.1812–13
D09125
Turner Bequest CXXIX 49
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Watermarked ‘J WHA[TMAN | 180[5]’
Trace of inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘49 [?]’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXXIX 49’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a more careful study of the pose of the principal figure in the previous sketch in the sketchbook, folio 48 recto (D09124). The figures suggested the theme of the watercolour of Woodcock Shooting on the Chevin (Wallace Collection, London)1 based on folio 47 recto (D09123), although the pose is completely reworked in the watercolour. See notes to D09124 for the tradition that the figure in the watercolour represents its purchaser, Sir ‘Henry’ (actually William) Pilkington of Chevet Hall, Wakefield.
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Wilton 1979, p.361 no. 534, as ‘Woodcock shooting on the Chiver’.
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun c.1812–13 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, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sportsman-with-a-gun-r1146848, accessed 20 April 2024.