Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Group of Figures, with Banners and Candles

1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Swiss Figures Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 198 × 163 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04805
Turner Bequest LXXVIII 8

Catalogue entry

For the religious procession of which six figures are drawn here, see especially folio 5 of this sketchbook (D04802), and also folios 6 and 7 (D04803, D04804). Only two figures are coloured, indicating black vestments. The others are perhaps choristers. Folio 7 shows the same figures with banners, here seen to bear a cross.
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David Blayney Brown
May 2003

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