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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Man Talking to an Oyster-Seller c.1835-40

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Man Talking to an Oyster-Seller’ c.1835-40
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Man Talking to an Oyster-Seller c.1835–40
D27378
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX a 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘The Bivalve Courtship’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXIX (a) – 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This scene of a young man and woman conversing is one of the more highly finished and discussed studies in this volume. It is described at greater length in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
February 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Man Talking to an Oyster-Seller c.1835–40 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-man-talking-to-an-oyster-seller-r1181517, accessed 26 April 2024.