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 > Academies Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Woman, Semi-Draped, Reclining on her Side, Head Resting on her Right Arm, Left Hand Between her Legs c.1800-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Woman, Semi-Draped, Reclining on her Side, Head Resting on her Right Arm, Left Hand Between her Legs’ c.1800-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
A Woman, Semi-Draped, Reclining on her Side, Head Resting on her Right Arm, Left Hand Between her Legs circa 1800–7
D05184
Turner Bequest LXXXIV 14a
Pencil on white wove paper, 73 x 119 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘14a’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘LXXXIV 14’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ian Warrell notes that here ‘the model’s hand seems to caress her vagina’ and suggests this as possible grounds for Turner’s Executors ‘suppressing’ this sketchbook by omitting it from their Schedule of his estate; see also Introduction to the sketchbook.

David Blayney Brown
November 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Woman, Semi-Draped, Reclining on her Side, Head Resting on her Right Arm, Left Hand Between her Legs c.1800–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2004, 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-woman-semi-draped-reclining-on-her-side-head-resting-on-r1178361, accessed 19 April 2024.