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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Children Seated on the Ground; Dock Leaves 1793-4

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Children Seated on the Ground; Dock Leaves’ 1793-4
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Three Children Seated on the Ground; Dock Leaves 1793–4
D00713
Turner Bequest XXIX H
Pencil on white wove paper, 202 x 133 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXIX H’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Both studies are accomplished, the figures especially; but they are in different styles and treat subjects of different scales. The drawing of foliage makes use of contrasting density of pencil-stroke, as do the studies of a donkey’s head in Tate D00367 (Turner Bequest XXII N). The sheet may date from somewhat later; Finberg placed it with miscellaneous drawings of about 1796.
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Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Three Children Seated on the Ground; Dock Leaves 1793–4 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-three-children-seated-on-the-ground-dock-leaves-r1141161, accessed 16 April 2024.