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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner An Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
An Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834–6
D27759
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXI – 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out in the Introduction, this is one of a sequence running through the middle of this sketchbook showing a substantial rural weir with a fence-like wooden superstructure, populated by numerous adults and children engaged in or watching fishing. The location is unidentified. The trees and weir here are continued on folio 18 verso opposite, where two figures are shown.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘An Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-an-angler-in-a-tall-hat-and-another-figure-at-a-country-weir-r1149120, accessed 26 April 2024.