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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Prone Female Nude c.1799-1800

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Prone Female Nude’ c.1799-1800
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
A Prone Female Nude c.1799–1800
D04018
Turner Bequest LXIX 24
Ink and white chalk on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘24’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-24’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is an unfinished study; a more complete drawing of the same figure is on the next page, folio 25 recto (D04019). It seems to have been used in the Biblical painting The Fifth Plague of Egypt, exhibited in 1800 (Indianapolis Museum of Art).1
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Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.10–12 no.13, pl.10 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; slight offset from folio 25 recto opposite (D04019).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Prone Female Nude c.1799–1800 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-prone-female-nude-r1177896, accessed 17 July 2024.