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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Seated Woman c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Seated Woman’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
A Seated Woman circa 1816
D10536
Turner Bequest CXL 65
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 155 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘65’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXL 65’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The image is inverted, according to the current foliation of the sketchbook.
This is a study for a seated figure lower left of centre in the Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (Tate N00499)1 exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1817, for which there are various drawings and related drafts of verse in this sketchbook; see notes to folio 4 (D10416).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed. 1984, pp.100–1 no.135 (pl.137).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Seated Woman c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, 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-seated-woman-r1131530, accessed 19 April 2024.