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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Tabley: Men Setting Traps or Taking up Nets 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Tabley: Men Setting Traps or Taking up Nets’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
?Tabley: Men Setting Traps or Taking up Nets 1808
D06998
Turner Bequest CV 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s visit to Tabley in 1808, see Introduction to the sketchbook, and for a series of sketches probably of the estate and the lake or Moat, note to folio 12 (D06994; Turner Bequest CV 10). Finberg’s title seems right as far as it goes; it is to be hoped that the traps are not the life-threatening man-traps that Sir John Leicester, as he announced on a poster for distribution around the area and preserved in Tabley House, set in the grounds to deter poachers. Alternatively, the men may be taking up nets from the Moat, as probably seen in folio 18 (D07000; Turner Bequest CV 15).
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David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Tabley: Men Setting Traps or Taking up Nets 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-tabley-men-setting-traps-or-taking-up-nets-r1134519, accessed 22 November 2024.