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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > History Painting c.1799-1807 > Academies Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Woman Reclining, Right Leg Bent and Lightly Draped, Head Propped on Left Hand; Detail of Drapery c.1800-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Woman Reclining, Right Leg Bent and Lightly Draped, Head Propped on Left Hand; Detail of Drapery’ c.1800-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
A Woman Reclining, Right Leg Bent and Lightly Draped, Head Propped on Left Hand; Detail of Drapery circa 1800–7
D05232
Turner Bequest LXXXIV 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 73 x 119 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘59’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘LXXXIV 59’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.
Verso:
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David Blayney Brown
November 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Woman Reclining, Right Leg Bent and Lightly Draped, Head Propped on Left Hand; Detail of Drapery c.1800–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2004, 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-woman-reclining-right-leg-bent-and-lightly-draped-head-r1178417, accessed 18 April 2024.