Joseph Mallord William Turner

Ploughmen and Horses

c.1806–8

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Windsor and Eton Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 107 × 182 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D06101
Turner Bequest XCVII 30

Catalogue entry

See note to folio 27 (D06098) for sketches of field hands in this sketchbook and their likely connection with Ploughing up Turnips near Slough (Tate N00486)1 exhibited at Turner’s Gallery in 1809.
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.66 no.89 (pl.99).
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David Blayney Brown
September 2008

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