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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Hand c.1800-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Hand’ c.1800-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
A Hand circa 1800–7
D40645
Pencil on white wove paper, 119 x 73 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not noticed or described by Finberg, this is a slight indication of a hand, belonging to the nude woman with upraised arm sketched on folio 37 of the sketchbook (D05211). There is also a slight offset of the whole figure.

David Blayney Brown
November 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Hand 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-hand-r1178392, accessed 23 September 2024.