Joseph Mallord William Turner

Studies of a Climbing (?or Falling) Male Figure and of a Seated Man

?1795

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Marford Mill Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 152 × 99 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D00315
Turner Bequest XX 37 a

Catalogue entry

The studies are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. Compare the drawings on folios 33 verso–34 recto, 36 verso and 41 verso (D00307, D00308, D00313, D00322).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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