Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Cow Drinking

c.1801

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Cows Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 117 × 184 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D03721
Turner Bequest LXII 1

Catalogue entry

The title is Finberg’s;1 the drawing has become so faint as to be hardly legible. For a general discussion of the cattle which form the exclusive subject of this sketchbook, see the Introduction, and for Turner’s numbered label, see the technical notes there.

Finberg 1909, I, p.164.

Technical notes:

The page is stained and spotted, with smears of blue-green colour.

Verso:

Blank; inscribed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest, Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight, in ink ‘N^o 220. | Ten leaves. containing | Cattle Ten Cattle some | in Colors – ∙ – | H S Trimmer | C Turner’ and in pencil ‘C.L.E.’ and ‘JPK’ top left.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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