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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Groups of Figures 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Groups of Figures’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
Groups of Figures 1845
D35649
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 90a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, two small groups of figures are noted at the outer edge, apparently including a standing man in a coat and tall hat, a stooping or seated woman and, perhaps, some children. They may have been travellers observed at one of the Channel ports on adjacent pages. See the Introduction for the occasional figure studies elsewhere in this sketchbook.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Groups of Figures 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-groups-of-figures-r1184064, accessed 25 April 2024.