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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > History Painting c.1799-1807 > Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of the Figure of a Standing Angel with Arms Raised c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of the Figure of a Standing Angel with Arms Raised’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Verso:
Part of the Figure of a Standing Angel with Arms Raised c.1799–1805
D05072
Turner Bequest LXXXI 170
Ink and black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 126 x 170 mm and 55 x 242 mm, inset in leaf of modern blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–170’ bottom right, ascending vertically, on the modern paper
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
One of the two fragments here is blank. Like the angel on the recto of the second fragment (D05071; Turner Bequest LXXXI 169), the one here may be associated with one of the Biblical subjects that Turner was planning in this sketchbook.
Technical notes:
The two fragments, together comprising about a quarter of the area of the original leaf, have been set within a sheet of modern blue paper.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Part of the Figure of a Standing Angel with Arms Raised c.1799–1805 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-part-of-the-figure-of-a-standing-angel-with-arms-raised-r1178276, accessed 19 September 2024.