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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Royal Academy c.1789-99 > Anatomical Studies > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Woman, Child and Wheelbarrow ?1791

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Woman, Child and Wheelbarrow’ ?1791
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Woman, Child and Wheelbarrow ?1791
D40224
Pencil on white wove paper, 476 x 270 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rapid study, apparently made from life in the street, is related to a group of figures in the foreground of a view of Westminster with Henry VII’s Chapel (private collection).1 In the watercolour, the woman in a straw hat is weighing goods which she is selling from a barrow; she is accompanied by two small children. Further studies of a similar trader, perhaps the same woman, occur in the Bristol and Malmesbury sketchbook (Tate D00100; Turner Bequest VI 19a).
The recto of this sheet is D00124 (Turner Bequest X A).
1
Lyles 1989, p.13, reproduced; Andrew Wilton, Turner as Draughtsman, 2006, p.25, fig.3.1.
Technical notes:
The right side of the sheet is irregularly torn and cut; there are slight chalk trials at the lower left corner.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Woman, Child and Wheelbarrow ?1791 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-woman-child-and-wheelbarrow-r1140309, accessed 24 November 2024.