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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > North Wales 1799-1801 > Dolbadarn Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Seated Women and a Group of Figures with Shields c.1799-1800

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Seated Women and a Group of Figures with Shields’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Two Seated Women and a Group of Figures with Shields c.1799–1800
D02091
Turner Bequest XLVI 61
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘61’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 61’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this sketch may have been made in relation to the same projected work as those on folios 59 verso and 60 recto (D02088–D02089). The pair of seated or crouching women on the left do not have any clear relationship with the more distant group of soldiers with spears and shields to the right. However, it is likely that the drawings are connected with one or another of Turner’s large-scale projects of this time, whether in oil or in watercolour.
Verso:
Blank; washed with a pale blue-grey ground.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Seated Women and a Group of Figures with Shields c.1799–1800 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-two-seated-women-and-a-group-of-figures-with-shields-r1179950, accessed 20 April 2024.