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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Picnic Bag, Kite &c c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Picnic Bag, Kite &c’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
?A Picnic Bag, Kite &c circa 1816–19
D10550
Turner Bequest CXL 71
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘71’ top left, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXL 71’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See notes to folio 78 verso of the sketchbook (D10549; Turner Bequest CXL 70a) for a run of sketches associated by Eric Shanes with Turner’s watercolour Richmond Terrace, Surrey (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)1 engraved by J.T. Willmore in 1836 for Picturesque Views in England and Wales, but surely earlier and related to other Richmond subjects as well. The subject of this small detail is rather obscure but might be a picnic bag or kite, and thus perhaps related to the earlier watercolour (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight)2 engraved by Edward Goodall in 1826 for The Literary Souvenir but probably originally intended for England and Wales.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.403 no.879.
2
Ibid., p.359 no.518.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?A Picnic Bag, Kite &c c.1816–19 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-picnic-bag-kite-c-r1131544, accessed 26 April 2024.