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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Hand Cart and Mug 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Hand Cart and Mug’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
A Hand Cart and Mug 1809
D07565
Turner Bequest CX 24a
Pencil on white laid paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Milk peggin Wood’ beside the mug, ‘Red check’ within the cover of the cart, ‘Women wear Black stocking and clogs shod with iron’ below top edge, ‘When they cart hay or corn an outrigger is | put on that projects beyond the wheels’ and ‘Cumberland. Like the | Scotch carts about Moffat’ below image
Stamped in black ‘CX 24a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner had visited Scotland in 1801. Andrew Wilton has noted the sense of ‘cultural otherness’ expressed by Turner’s notes on Cumberland costumes and habits such as these and others on folio 25 and 32 verso of the sketchbook (D07566, D07574).1

David Blayney Brown
August 2009

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Andrew Wilton and Rosalind Mallord Turner, Painting and Poetry: Turner’s ‘Verse Book’ and his Work of 1804–1812, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1990, p.136.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Hand Cart and Mug 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-hand-cart-and-mug-r1135681, accessed 05 May 2025.