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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Figures Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Back View of a Woman Walking with Bare Feet, Carrying a Bundle in a Plaid on her Back 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Back View of a Woman Walking with Bare Feet, Carrying a Bundle in a Plaid on her Back’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Back View of a Woman Walking with Bare Feet, Carrying a Bundle in a Plaid on her Back 1801
D03443
Turner Bequest LIX 4
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 156 x 92 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LIX – 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a series of figure studies between folios 1 recto and 16 recto (D03440–D03444, D03446–D03456); see the sketchbook’s Introduction.
Verso:
Blank; offset from folio 5 recto opposite (D03444).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Back View of a Woman Walking with Bare Feet, Carrying a Bundle in a Plaid 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-back-view-of-a-woman-walking-with-bare-feet-carrying-a-r1179582, accessed 18 April 2024.