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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Man Walking, Seen from Behind 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Man Walking, Seen from Behind’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
A Man Walking, Seen from Behind 1796–7
D01232
Turner Bequest XXXVII 115
Pencil on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 93 x 113 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 115’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this very slight note of a figure (Finberg recorded the page as ‘Blank’) is on a scale small in relation to the page size so that it has the appearance of being situated in a large space, perhaps the beach at Margate where the scenes on adjacent pages are apparently set.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Man Walking, Seen from Behind 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-man-walking-seen-from-behind-r1149922, accessed 22 September 2024.