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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of a Man Wearing a Kilt, a Horse and Cart, and a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Back 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of a Man Wearing a Kilt, a Horse and Cart, and a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Back’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Studies of a Man Wearing a Kilt, a Horse and Cart, and a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Back 1801
D02601
Turner Bequest LIII 93a
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 112 x 162 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The three isolated studies were made with the page turned horizontally, with only the central one of a horse and cart developed in watercolour. Whereas the other studies of figures occurring at this end of this sketchbook seem to show people in English dress and may have been made in Newcastle upon Tyne, the figure in kilt and tartan stockings here indicates that this drawing was made north of the border, perhaps in Edinburgh where, instead of continuing to fill the pages of this book, Turner began a new one, the Edinburgh sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest LV).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Studies of a Man Wearing a Kilt, a Horse and Cart, and a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Back 1801 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-studies-of-a-man-wearing-a-kilt-a-horse-and-cart-and-a-woman-r1178623, accessed 25 April 2024.