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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Spa, Dinant and Namur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
Figures 1839
D28117
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 40
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
Watermarked ‘John Fe[llows] | 181[0]’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘40’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–40’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made a swift sketch of figures: two women at the right and a number of unelaborated linear profiles of figures at the left.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Figures 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-figures-r1150391, accessed 27 April 2024.