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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mounted Figure in Brass Mail with Sword c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mounted Figure in Brass Mail with Sword’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Mounted Figure in Brass Mail with Sword c.1824
D18404
Turner Bequest CCX 55a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Four] Knights’ ‘Green [?Dragon]’ | ‘5’ or ‘S’ top left, ‘C[...]’ | ‘White Horse’ | ‘quite [R...]’ left centre, ‘Brass Mail’ centre towards top right, ‘[...] [...]’ top centre towards right, ‘E[...] F[...]’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered a cursory sketch of a figure in ‘brass mail’ mounted on horseback. The associated drawing is depicted on Tate D18403; Turner Bequest CCX 55, accompanied by inscriptions relating to both of these folios on Tate D18402; Turner Bequest CCX 54a. Turner has annotated the sketches with inscriptions (transcribed in full above) relating to the knight’s costume, a ‘green dragon’ on the banner in the background (see Tate D18402; Turner Bequest CCX 54a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mounted Figure in Brass Mail with Sword c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mounted-figure-in-brass-mail-with-sword-r1181291, accessed 25 April 2024.