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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of a Country Girl 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of a Country Girl’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Sketches of a Country Girl 1835
D30823
Turner Bequest CCCV 1
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Lobster] [...] | [...] Green’ | ‘Green and Gold’ | ‘Quantity of Ribbons | Green or Red’ across top, ‘B[...]’ rear centre towards left
Inscribed in black ink ‘61/4’ top left
Signed by H.S. Trimmer in black ink and inscribed ‘No 362 | 33 leaves of pencil sketches’ top centre
Signed in pencil by Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ and John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’ at top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–1’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory sketches depict country girls in local dress and are annotated with inscriptions reading: ‘[?Lobster] [...] | [...] Green’ | ‘Green and Gold’ | ‘Quantity of Ribbons | Green or Red’. Turner has drawn across one of the moveable tabs of the perpetual calendar (Tate D41036) to render part of the dress of the principal figure. The sketches may have been taken at Copenhagen, which is depicted on the following folio (Tate D30824; Turner Bequest CCCV 2).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of a Country Girl 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-a-country-girl-r1187201, accessed 21 May 2024.