Joseph Mallord William Turner

Figures

1839

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 94 x 154 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D28117
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 40

Catalogue entry

Here Turner has made a swift sketch of figures: two women at the right and a number of unelaborated linear profiles of figures at the left.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

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