Joseph Mallord William Turner

Female Figures; Buildings

c.1826

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
France and Folkestone Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 158 × 104 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D24109
Turner Bequest CCLVI 2

Catalogue entry

Turner filled the upper half of this page with two figures studies of women in poke bonnets. Inverted in relation to the drawings above, the bottom of the page features a loose study of buildings. There is no distinguishing landmark to identify this scene although Tate curator Ian Warrell has located some of the sketches in this volume to the region around Dover, and also Calais and Beauvais in Northern France.1

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.156.

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