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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Windsor and Eton Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Men Ploughing c.1806-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Men Ploughing’ c.1806-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81Verso:
Men Ploughing circa 1806–8
D06161
Turner Bequest XCVII 81a
Pencil on white wove paper, 107 x 182 mm
Stamped in black ‘XCVII 81a’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. 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
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.66 no.89 (pl.99).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Men Ploughing 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-men-ploughing-r1130342, accessed 16 April 2024.