Joseph Mallord William Turner

Figures on a Platform with a Banner; and a Study of a Woman ?Playing a Long Pipe

1794

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Marford Mill Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 99 × 152 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D00270
Turner Bequest XX 9

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A study evidently made at a fairground, and most probably at Wolverhampton; see the finished watercolour, Woolverhampton, Staffordshire (Wolverhampton Art Gallery),1 shown at the Royal Academy in 1796. Other fairground studies in this book are on folios 11 recto, 15 recto and verso, 16 recto, 35 verso (D00273, D00276–D00278, D00311).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.315 no.139, pl.23 (colour).

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Figures on a Platform with a Banner; and a Study of a Woman ?Playing a Long Pipe

1794

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