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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Blacksmith Shoeing a Pony 1807

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Blacksmith Shoeing a Pony 1807
D06584
Turner Bequest C 54
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘54’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘C 54’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See comments to folio 58 of the sketchbook (D06583; Turenr Bequest C 53), another, rather slighter scene of a smithy.

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Blacksmith Shoeing a Pony 1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2006, 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-blacksmith-shoeing-a-pony-r1139118, accessed 29 March 2024.