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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Spithead Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cottage Interior with Figures 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cottage Interior with Figures’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Cottage Interior with Figures 1807
D06585
Turner Bequest C 54a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Woman frying. Boy Looking. Grey W.B.| Cows at the door ... Children at tub. A Girl beating the barrel | G Bw ... BWy’ below image
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s notes, including comments on colour, suggest that he had a picture in mind. See Introduction to the sketchbook and note to folio 58 (D06583; Turner Bequest C 53) for his current interest in the rustic narrative pictures of David Wilkie. Folios 60 recto and verso and 61 verso (D06586, D06587, D06589; Turner Bequest C 55, 55a, 56a) also have sketches of cottage or farm interiors with figures.

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Cottage Interior with Figures 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-cottage-interior-with-figures-r1139119, accessed 25 April 2024.