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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Gun Dogs c.1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
Two Gun Dogs c.1816
D11677
Turner Bequest CXLIX 82
Pencil on white wove paper, 93 x 149 mm
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 82’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has sketched two dogs, one standing, the other sitting, together with a satchel or saddle-bag to the right. This and another study of dogs on folio 83 recto (D11678) are probably related to the series of sketches of shoots on moorland near Farnley Hall, the seat of Turner’s Yorkshire friend and patron Walter Fawkes, at the end of the book (running from the back, between folios 302 verso and 296 (D11908 to D11897; and specifically to folios 300 recto and 299 verso (D11903, D11902).
Verso:
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Gun Dogs c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-gun-dogs-r1143822, accessed 29 March 2024.