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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Life Drawing Class c.1835-40

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Verso:
Life Drawing Class c.1835–40
D27470
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX a 58a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...]y’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch on gutter edge of this page is a continuation of a study of a life drawing class on folio 59 recto opposite (D27471; Turner Bequest CCLXXIX a 59).

John Chu
February 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Life Drawing Class c.1835–40 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-life-drawing-class-r1181602, accessed 28 March 2024.