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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bedchamber, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bedchamber, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 109 Recto:
A Bedchamber, Northern France 1832
D24381
Turner Bequest CCLVII 109
Pencil on white laid paper, 127 x 175 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘190’ top right and ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 190’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked a small sketch of a dark interior into the top section of this page. Two sweeping strokes of the pencil at the centre of the scene suggest curtains hanging from a bedframe. Attention has been paid to the strong tonal effect of a door opening into this dark chamber on the left-hand edge of the drawing.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘A Bedchamber, Northern France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-a-bedchamber-northern-france-r1175409, accessed 18 September 2024.