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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Standing Man Smoking a Pipe ?1792

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Standing Man Smoking a Pipe’ ?1792
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Study of a Standing Man Smoking a Pipe ?1792
D40226
Pencil on white wove paper, 272 x 216 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram centre right
Inscribed in pencil ‘verso D40226 / recto D00182’ top right, ascending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This faint figure recurs in almost identical form on the verso of a wash drawing of Don Quixote and the Enchanted Bark, in a private collection (see under Tate D00189; Turner Bequest XVII N).
There is another drawing on the recto (D00182; Turner Bequest XVII G).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of a Standing Man Smoking a Pipe ?1792 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-study-of-a-standing-man-smoking-a-pipe-r1141318, accessed 21 November 2024.