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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > France and Folkestone Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Female Figures; Buildings c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Female Figures; Buildings’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Female Figures; Buildings c.1826
D24109
Turner Bequest CCLVI 2
Pencil on white laid paper, 158 x 104 mm
Partial watermark of a crown and laurels
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black CCLVI – 2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the upper half of this page with two figures studies of women in poke bonnets. Inverted in relation to the drawings above, the bottom of the page features a loose study of buildings. There is no distinguishing landmark to identify this scene although Tate curator Ian Warrell has located some of the sketches in this volume to the region around Dover, and also Calais and Beauvais in Northern France.1

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.156.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Female Figures; Buildings c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-female-figures-buildings-r1185402, accessed 26 April 2024.