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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Climbing Warrior 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Climbing Warrior’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
?A Climbing Warrior 1798
D41422
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘81’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very slight study, not mentioned by Finberg,1 apparently belongs with the drawings of climbing men in armour on folio 13 recto opposite page (D01484). The few rapid pencil strokes that comprise the sketch might be interpreted in a number of ways.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.94.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?A Climbing Warrior 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-climbing-warrior-r1173720, accessed 19 April 2024.