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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Nude Man Supporting a Fainting Figure c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Nude Man Supporting a Fainting Figure’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
A Nude Man Supporting a Fainting Figure c.1799–1802
D04075
Turner Bequest LXIX 66
Pencil and white chalk on blue laid paper, 210 x 135 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘66’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg suggests a Biblical Plague subject,1 but this group appears to relate to the figures on the right-hand side of the painting The Deluge, thought to have been exhibited in 1805 (Tate N00493),2 as noted by Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll.3

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.172.
2
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.43–4 no.55, pl.65 (colour).
3
See ibid., p.44.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Nude Man Supporting a Fainting Figure c.1799–1802 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-nude-man-supporting-a-fainting-figure-r1177954, accessed 26 April 2024.