Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Nude Woman Dancing, Seen from Behind

c.1800–7

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Academies Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 119 x 73 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D05224
Turner Bequest LXXXIV 51

Catalogue entry

A slighter sketch of the head and shoulders of this figure is on folio 49 of the sketchbook (D05223).

Verso:

Blank, save for a slight offset of the reclining woman on folio 51 (D05225).

David Blayney Brown
November 2004

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