Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Seated Male Nude Holding a Staff in his Raised Right Hand

c.1798–9

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Academical Sketchbook
Medium
Dimensions
Support: 216 × 140 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D01822
Turner Bequest XLIII 6

Catalogue entry

This drawing shows the same model as on the preceding page, folio 5 recto (D01821; Turner Bequest XLIII 5), here seen from the front. This is one of a sequence of life studies between folios 1 recto and 14 recto (D01816–D01826, D01828, D01829; Turner Bequest XLIII 2, 3, 3a, 4–7, 1, 8–10, 12, 13).
Verso:
Blank, prepared with a red-brown ground; inscribed by National Gallery Keeper Ralph Wornum in pencil ‘one out R.N.W.’, presumably referring to the extraction of folio 7 recto opposite (D01823; Turner Bequest XLIII 7) for display.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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