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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Vatican Fragments Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Female Figures 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Female Figures’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
Two Female Figures 1819
D15130
Turner Bequest CLXXX 13 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 161 x 101 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains rough sketches of two female figures, one of whom has her head covered. Unlike the majority of drawings within this sketchbook these do not appear to be studies of classical statuary but rather to have been drawn from life. Further sketches of people can be found on the inner front cover and on folios 6 verso, 15 verso, 33 verso, 64, 69, 80, 80 verso, 82 and 82 verso (D40619, D15114, D15132, D15167, D15223, D15228, D15245, D15246, D15249 and D15250; Turner Bequest CLXXX 5a, 14a, 32a, 63, 68, 79, 79a, 81 and 81a).

Nicola Moorby
November 2009

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Female Figures 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-two-female-figures-r1139542, accessed 09 May 2024.