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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Women with Large Headdresses; Buildings ?at Copenhagen 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Women with Large Headdresses; Buildings ?at Copenhagen’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso
Two Sketches of Women with Large Headdresses; Buildings ?at Copenhagen 1835
D31137
Turner Bequest CCCVII 59 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 162 x 89 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts two women wearing headdresses and buildings, possibly at Copenhagen.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of Women with Large Headdresses; Buildings ?at Copenhagen 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-women-with-large-headdresses-buildings-at-r1187012, accessed 04 April 2026.