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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797 ... > Academical Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Female Nude with Raised Arms c.1798-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Female Nude with Raised Arms’ c.1798-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
A Female Nude with Raised Arms c.1798–9
D01819
Turner Bequest XLIII 3a
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on blue laid paper prepared with a red-brown ground, 216 x 140 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘3[...]’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLIII – 3a’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the model here is evidently posed as the mythical princess Andromeda chained to the rock. She is seen again in the same position, but drawn from a slightly different angle, in folio 4 recto (D01820; Turner Bequest XLIII 4).
This is one of a sequence of life studies between folios 1 recto and 14 recto (D01816–D01826, D01828, D01829; Turner Bequest XLIII 2, 3, 3a, 4–7, 1, 8–10, 12, 13).
Technical notes:
The page has faded from exposure.
Verso:
Blank, prepared with a red-brown ground; inscribed in pencil, ‘XLIII, 3, a’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Female Nude with Raised Arms c.1798–9 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 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-female-nude-with-raised-arms-r1174018, accessed 21 November 2024.