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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Figures Seated or Kneeling in a Cottage Interior 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Figures Seated or Kneeling in a Cottage Interior’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 102 Verso:
Three Figures Seated or Kneeling in a Cottage Interior 1799
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Turner Bequest XLVI 102a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a yellow ground, 79 x 130 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bl’ right of centre on figure
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is a study of the kind that Turner quite often made, recording a place at which he stayed in the course of his travels. The figures may be people he knew personally, or more probably are simply ‘locals’ he met by chance and who struck him as characteristic of the region.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Three Figures Seated or Kneeling in a Cottage Interior 1799 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-three-figures-seated-or-kneeling-in-a-cottage-interior-r1180004, accessed 13 May 2024.