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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Party of Men Picnicking: ?Turner and his Travelling Companions 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Party of Men Picnicking: ?Turner and his Travelling Companions’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
A Party of Men Picnicking: ?Turner and his Travelling Companions 1802
D04775
Turner Bequest LXXVII 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed in an unknown hand in pencil ‘35’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVII – 35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Andrew Wilton suggests, these figures may include Turner and his travelling companions, Newbey Lowson, the driver of their cabriolet and the Swiss servant they had hired in Paris who would have been returning with them. It is possible that the figures are in a boat on an expedition such as that on Lake Brienz documented in this sketchbook; see for example folios 17 verso and 23 verso (D04753, D04761).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Party of Men Picnicking: ?Turner and his Travelling Companions 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, 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-party-of-men-picnicking-turner-and-his-travelling-r1133479, accessed 26 April 2024.