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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Standing Nude with Raised Arms ?1835-40

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Standing Nude with Raised Arms’ ?1835-40
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 recto:
Standing Nude with Raised Arms ?1835–40
D27486
Turner Bequest CCLXXIXb 6
Chalk on white laid paper, 184 x 72 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX(b) – 6)’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of 32 red chalk academic nudes worked into this volume. See the sketchbook introduction for further explanation. This particular sketch has been connected to The Golden Bough landscape in oils in the Tate collection; N00371. 1
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John Gage, J.M.W. Turner: ‘A Wonderful Range of Mind’, New Haven and London 1987, p.37.
Technical notes:
The page is stained by the glue used to fasten the crimson leather loops and corner details to the covers.
The upper right hand quadrant of the verso bears the counterproof of the drawing on folio 7 recto (D27487; Turner Bequest CCLXXIXb 7).

John Chu
February 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Standing Nude with Raised Arms ?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-standing-nude-with-raised-arms-r1181619, accessed 25 April 2024.