J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Seated Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Seated Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir’ c.1834-6
Folio 20 Recto:
A Seated Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834–6
D27761
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXI – 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a very slight continuation of water going over the weir from the main part of the composition on folio 19 verso opposite (D27760); it is so insignificant that Finberg omitted to mention this side of folio 20 in his 1909 Inventory, going straight from D27760 to the verso of the present leaf (D27762).1

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.906.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Seated Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834–6’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/a-seated-angler-in-a-tall-hat-and-another-figure-at-a-country-weir-r1149122, accessed 05 April 2026.