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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Supine Nude Woman with her Left Arm Extended c.1799-1800

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Supine Nude Woman with her Left Arm Extended’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
A Supine Nude Woman with her Left Arm Extended c.1799–1800
D04022
Turner Bequest LXIX 28
Ink and white chalk on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-28’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is a study evidently related to one of the apocalyptic Biblical subjects on which Turner was working around 1800; see also the rectos of folios 24, 25, 26 and 27 (D04018–D04021).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Supine Nude Woman with her Left Arm Extended c.1799–1800 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-supine-nude-woman-with-her-left-arm-extended-r1177900, accessed 25 April 2024.