Joseph Mallord William Turner

Historical Subject: Groups of Figures

c.1800–7

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Academies Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 172 × 119 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05172
Turner Bequest LXXXIV 6

Catalogue entry

The subject continues on folio 5 verso of the sketchbook (D05171), for which see catalogue note. The group of figures drawn in ink obscures a pencil sketch of a single figure.

David Blayney Brown
November 2004

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