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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Windsor and Eton Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Group of Field Hands c.1806-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Group of Field Hands’ c.1806-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Recto:
Group of Field Hands circa 1806–8
D06166
Turner Bequest XCVII 84
Pencil on white wove paper, 107 x 182 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘84’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCVII 84’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 27 (D06098) for sketches of field hands and work in this sketchbook and their likely connection with Ploughing up Turnips near Slough (Tate N00486)1 exhibited at Turner’s Gallery in 1809.

David Blayney Brown
September 2008

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).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Group of Field Hands c.1806–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-group-of-field-hands-r1130347, accessed 02 August 2025.