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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch of the Back of a Woman by Turner; and Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketch of the Back of a Woman by Turner; and Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Sketch of the Back of a Woman by Turner; and Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 1819
D13892
Turner Bequest CLXXI 18 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Y | B’ and ‘[?J...] [w...] | y [...] Red’ within sketch top right
Inscribed by James Hakewill in black ink (see main catalogue entry), parallel with right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has used this page to make a small figure study of the back of a woman, annotated with written notes on colour. The sheet also contains an inscription by James Hakewill (1778–1843), part of his advice to Turner on travelling in Italy in preparation for the artist’s first tour of the country in 1819 (see the introduction to the sketchbook). The text reads ‘Bologna | For pictures see | Palazzo Marescalchi | Ercolani’ [i.e. the Marescalchi and Hercolani Palaces]. Further notes on Bologna can be found on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 19 (D13893).

Nicola Moorby
March 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketch of the Back of a Woman by Turner; and Notes by James Hakewill on Travelling in Italy 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2010, 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-sketch-of-the-back-of-a-woman-by-turner-and-notes-by-james-r1138710, accessed 03 February 2025.