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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Boy Lying on a Country Weir with his Hand in the Water c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Boy Lying on a Country Weir with his Hand in the Water’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
A Boy Lying on a Country Weir with his Hand in the Water c.1834–6
D27757
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘18’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXI – 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketchy continuation of trees and a distant building from the main part of the composition on folio 17 verso opposite (D27756), where a youth is seen on the weir.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Boy Lying on a Country Weir with his Hand in the Water c.1834–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-boy-lying-on-a-country-weir-with-his-hand-in-the-water-r1149118, accessed 26 April 2024.