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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Cow c.1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Cow’ c.1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
A Cow c.1801
D03734
Turner Bequest LXII 13
Pencil on white laid paper, 117 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXII 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll suggest that this study was used for the left-hand cow in the oil painting Sketch of a Bank, with Gipsies, probably exhibited in Turner’s gallery in 1809 (Tate N00467);1 see also folio 10 recto (D03731).
For a general discussion of the cattle which form the exclusive subject of this sketchbook, see the Introduction.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.62 no.82, pl.92.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Cow c.1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-cow-r1178340, accessed 17 July 2024.