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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Battle Scene, Perhaps from the Napoleonic Wars c.1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Battle Scene, Perhaps from the Napoleonic Wars c.1801
D41490
Pencil on coarse white wove paper, 679 x 1020 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slight pencil sketch, confined to a small area in the middle of the sheet. It apparently shows figures in uniform, and presumably relates to the more developed subject on the recto (Tate D17163; Turner Bequest CXCV a M). Neither side is mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1
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See the ‘Miscellaneous Black and White’ grouping in A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, pp.597–8, CXCV a A–L, c.1810–20, with which the recto of the present work was associated when assigned a Turner Bequest number.
Technical notes:
The sheet is stained and torn.

Matthew Imms
April 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Battle Scene, Perhaps from the Napoleonic Wars c.1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2015, 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-battle-scene-perhaps-from-the-napoleonic-wars-r1178481, accessed 19 April 2024.