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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Liber Studiorum notes c.1807-19 > Aesacus and Hesperie Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Details of Costumes c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Details of Costumes’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Details of Costumes c.1819
D13788
Turner Bequest CLXIX 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 119 x 87 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ top right, ascending vertically (faint and smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CLXIX – 25’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, the upper two sketches appear to show shoulders and perhaps a hat or headdress, probably female, while the lower one appears to show the back view of a man in a hat and tailcoat. The top sketch is inscribed ‘R’, perhaps for red, and there are other brief notes including ‘Blu’ twice.

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Details of Costumes c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, 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-details-of-costumes-r1147511, accessed 23 April 2024.