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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Small Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Coach and Figures in a Street 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Coach and Figures in a Street’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
A Coach and Figures in a Street 1802
D04201
Turner Bequest LXXI 9
Pencil on wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 9’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 9 in this book, this has since been rebound as folio 11. Most probably made at Calais but conceivably on the way to Paris, the sketch may show the coach used by Turner.
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David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Coach and Figures in a Street 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2003, 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-coach-and-figures-in-a-street-r1133757, accessed 21 November 2024.