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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Dancing Female Figure; a Group of Three Figures Lifting a Fourth from the Ground; a Male Figure with Outstretched Arms 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Dancing Female Figure; a Group of Three Figures Lifting a Fourth from the Ground; a Male Figure with Outstretched Arms’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 112 Verso:
A Dancing Female Figure; a Group of Three Figures Lifting a Fourth from the Ground; a Male Figure with Outstretched Arms 1799
D02161
Turner Bequest XLVI 112a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, these studies presumably relate to the ideas for historical subjects that Turner was mulling over in the years around the turn of the century; see for example folios 59 verso and 60 recto (D02088, D02089).
Technical notes:
The bottom left corner of the leaf has been torn away and made up.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Dancing Female Figure; a Group of Three Figures Lifting a Fourth from the Ground; a Male Figure with Outstretched Arms 1799 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-a-dancing-female-figure-a-group-of-three-figures-lifting-a-r1180020, accessed 26 April 2024.