Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cottage Interior with Figures

1807

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Spithead Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 118 × 187 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D06585
Turner Bequest C 54 a

Catalogue entry

Turner’s notes, including comments on colour, suggest that he had a picture in mind. See Introduction to the sketchbook and note to folio 58 (D06583; Turner Bequest C 53) for his current interest in the rustic narrative pictures of David Wilkie. Folios 60 recto and verso and 61 verso (D06586, D06587, D06589; Turner Bequest C 55, 55a, 56a) also have sketches of cottage or farm interiors with figures.

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

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