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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Male Nude, Half-Kneeling, Seen from Behind c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Male Nude, Half-Kneeling, Seen from Behind’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
A Male Nude, Half–Kneeling, Seen from Behind c.1799–1805
D04909
Turner Bequest LXXXI 8
Black chalk on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and Strasburg lily
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–8’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are only slight black chalk marks here, at the gutter, continuing from the figure drawing on folio 5 recto opposite (D04910; Turner Bequest LXXXI 9).
Technical notes:
There is some white chalk offsetting from folio 5 recto opposite (D04910; Turner Bequest LXXXI 9).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Male Nude, Half–Kneeling, Seen from Behind c.1799–1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-male-nude-half-kneeling-seen-from-behind-r1178113, accessed 04 July 2026.