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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Dark Interior or Curtained Bed, with Figures c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Dark Interior or Curtained Bed, with Figures’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
?A Dark Interior or Curtained Bed, with Figures c.1834–6
D28819
Turner Bequest CCXCI b 25a
Watercolour on white wove paper, 77 x 101 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In the shadows between what are probably bed curtains, there appear to be two pale figures.
For a discussion of the improvisatory and often erotic nature of the watercolour studies making up most of this sketchbook, see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?A Dark Interior or Curtained Bed, with Figures c.1834–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, 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-a-dark-interior-or-curtained-bed-with-figures-r1149048, accessed 20 April 2024.