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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Supine Nude Woman with Arms Extended c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Supine Nude Woman with Arms Extended’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
A Supine Nude Woman with Arms Extended c.1799–1802
D04020
Turner Bequest LXIX 26
Ink and white chalk on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘26’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-26’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is possibly, like the drawings on folios 24 recto and 25 recto (D04018, D04019), related to the Biblical painting of The Fifth Plague of Egypt, (Indianapolis Museum of Art)1 or perhaps a study made in connection with The Destruction of Sodom of about 1805 (Tate N00474).2
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.10–12 no.13, pl.10 (colour).
2
Ibid., p.44 no.56, pl.66.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Supine Nude Woman with Arms Extended c.1799–1802 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, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-supine-nude-woman-with-arms-extended-r1177898, accessed 27 April 2024.