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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Groups of Figures c.1827-30

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Groups of Figures’ c.1827-30 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Groups of Figures c.1827–30
D41057
Turner Bequest
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 68 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There is one group of figures across the middle of the endpaper, turned vertically, and a smaller group below, although their activities are unclear. They may have been observed in the Midlands in 1830, or be related to the figure studies made by the River Thames, possibly around 1827, on folios 69 recto and verso and 71 verso (D22455, D22456, D22460). For other views along the Thames between the bridges at Hammersmith and Putney, see under folio 58 verso (D22434).
There are a few illegible words inscribed in two lines above.
Technical notes:
The heavy pencil work is rubbed and offset onto folio 72 verso opposite (D22462). There is staining from the leather overlaps over which the page is pasted.

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Groups of Figures c.1827–30 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-groups-of-figures-r1148613, accessed 25 April 2024.