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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Agent Seated at a Table, Surrounded by Tenants and Women and Children c.1807-10

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Agent Seated at a Table, Surrounded by Tenants and Women and Children’ c.1807-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
An Agent Seated at a Table, Surrounded by Tenants and Women and Children circa 1807–10
D05357
Turner Bequest LXXXVI 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 258 x 370 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVI 5a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This subject continues, drawn in pen as well as pencil, on folio 6 of the sketchbook (D05358).
Evidently studied from life, the group is related to Turner’s unfinished painting Harvest Home (Tate N00562).1 In the picture the agent appears at right, dispensing pay or a harvest bonus to estate workers and their families who queue up at his table.

David Blayney Brown
December 2009

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.128 no.209 (pl.208).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘An Agent Seated at a Table, Surrounded by Tenants and Women and Children c.1807–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2009, 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-an-agent-seated-at-a-table-surrounded-by-tenants-and-women-r1133587, accessed 22 November 2024.