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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Figures; Copenhagen from the Sound, with Boats 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Figures; Copenhagen from the Sound, with Boats’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
Two Figures; Copenhagen from the Sound, with Boats 1835
D30887
Turner Bequest CCCV 34
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘34’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–34’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show Copenhagen from Øresund Strait and two female figures.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Figures; Copenhagen from the Sound, with Boats 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-figures-copenhagen-from-the-sound-with-boats-r1187264, accessed 25 April 2024.