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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Studies of a Swan c.1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Studies of a Swan’ c.1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Four Studies of a Swan c.1799
D02246
Turner Bequest XLIX 4
Black chalk on white laid paper, 121 x 150 mm
Part watermark ‘Gater’
Stamped in black ‘XLIX – 4’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Used with the page turned horizontally, rather than being a note of a group of swans, this drawing seems to contain a succession of studies of one bird in different positions. For other bird studies in this book and in the Swans sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XLII), see under folio 1 recto (D02243; Turner Bequest XLIX 1).
Technical notes:
The sheet is discoloured from exposure.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘866’.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Four Studies of a Swan c.1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-four-studies-of-a-swan-r1174118, accessed 23 April 2024.