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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Moors 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Moors’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
?Moors 1809
D07856
Turner Bequest CXIII 2
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXIII 2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is only the faintest ghost and its subject cannot be confirmed. Finberg’s title must have been based on adjacent sketches of figures in open country on folios 2 verso–3 and 4 (D07857–D07858, D07860) and those of gun-dogs and sportsmen at the other end of the book.
The leaf is smudged with ink, apparently offset from inscriptions on an opposite leaf now removed from the book.

David Blayney Brown
July 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Moors 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-moors-r1135811, accessed 21 November 2024.