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 > Return from Italy Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Nude Woman 1820

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Nude Woman’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Study of a Nude Woman 1820
D16710
Turner Bequest CXCII 35 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 128 x 98 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has used this page for a study of a nude woman, posed as though she is running and turning back to look over her left shoulder. It is not known whether this is a drawing made from life or a copy of a work of art.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Study of a Nude Woman 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-a-nude-woman-r1142610, accessed 25 April 2024.