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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Figure Studies c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figure Studies’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
Figure Studies c.1799–1805
D05056
Turner Bequest LXXXI 154
Black chalk and ink on blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–154’ bottom right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, a study of the figure of an angel in pen and brown ink has been removed; compare the figures of angels on folios 79 verso and 85 recto (D05058, D05069; Turner Bequest LXXXI 156, 167). The other studies on this page are in black chalk and so faint and insubstantial that it is difficult to read them.
Technical notes:
The excised figure mentioned above was evidently carefully cut out as Finberg states,1 leaving traces of its ink outline; the resultant hole has since been made good with similar paper.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.218.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Figure Studies c.1799–1805 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-figure-studies-r1178260, accessed 19 April 2024.