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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Seated Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
A Seated Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834–6
D27760
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
 
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. Here, a figure watches while a man in an elegant dark coat and tall hat perches against the rail while fishing in the water below the weir; he is presumably the same man shown on folios 18 verso and 20 verso (D27758, D27762).
There is a very slight continuation of the water going over the weir to the right on folio 20 recto opposite (D27761).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Seated 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-a-seated-angler-in-a-tall-hat-and-another-figure-at-a-r1149121, accessed 25 April 2024.