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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Male Figure c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Male Figure’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 recto:
Male Figure c.1832
D27284
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 206 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Red or Blue | Clock and | W. [...] top right, ‘Allum’ and ‘Ha[...]horn’ centre, inverted
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 3’ top left, inverted
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, Turner worked a small figure of a man into the top right hand corner of this page. For more information on the figures in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Male Figure c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-male-figure-r1181420, accessed 25 April 2024.