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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Group of ?French Peasants 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Group of ?French Peasants’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 208 Recto:
Group of ?French Peasants 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 201
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Red’ centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘201’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–201’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made a swift record of a group of locals, most likely encountered as he journeyed the northern French coast.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Group of ?French Peasants 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-group-of-french-peasants-r1174747, accessed 26 April 2024.