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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner An Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir’ c.1834-6
Folio 18 Verso:
An Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834–6
D27758
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 18a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out in the Introduction, this is one of a sequence running through the middle of this sketchbook showing a substantial rural weir with a fence-like wooden superstructure, populated by numerous adults and children engaged in or watching fishing. The location is unidentified. Here, a man in a dark coat and tall hat leans on his fishing rod, apparently engaged with another person seated to the left. The trees and weir continue across folio 19 recto opposite (D27759). The elegant man in the hat is presumably the one shown again on folios 19 verso and 20 verso (D27760, D27762).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘An Angler in a Tall Hat and Another Figure at a Country Weir c.1834–6’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/an-angler-in-a-tall-hat-and-another-figure-at-a-country-weir-r1149119, accessed 25 November 2024.