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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Man Seated Holding a Gun, and a Barrel of Beer 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Man Seated Holding a Gun, and a Barrel of Beer’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
Man Seated Holding a Gun, and a Barrel of Beer 1809
D07934
Turner Bequest CXIII 52a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. See note to folio 49 verso (D07928) and Introduction to the sketchbook for the suggestion that its shooting subjects might have been drawn on the moors around Farnley Hall. This figure has some resemblance to the man, presumed to be Walter Fawkes, seated in the foreground of Turner’s watercolour Shooting Party on the Moors 12 August [1816] (private collection).1

David Blayney Brown
August 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, pp.370–1 no.610.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Man Seated Holding a Gun, and a Barrel of Beer 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, 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-man-seated-holding-a-gun-and-a-barrel-of-beer-r1135890, accessed 25 April 2024.