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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Women's Heads; Two Seated Figures; A Cart; Two Men; A Boat; A Spire 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Women's Heads; Two Seated Figures; A Cart; Two Men; A Boat; A Spire 1833
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Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘G[...] old W’ top left, ascending; ‘Boats on the Danube’ bottom centre (continued on Tate D30130; Turner Bequest CCC 1); ‘M[...] vs H[...]’ bottom right, ‘Blue and White’ bottom right towards right centre
Stamped in black ‘CCC’ top right, descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These various sketches show women’s heads in profile and from the back, a baroque church spire, two seated female figures, a cart, two male figures with one in military uniform, and a man in a rowing boat with an oar beside his vessel and ‘Horses’ (inscribed on the folio opposite, Tate D30130; Turner Bequest CCC 1) to his right. Inscriptions surrounding the man in the rowing boat read: ‘Boats on the Danube’ (inscribed on this folio and Tate D30130), ‘M[...] vs H[...]’ and ‘Blue and White’. ‘G[...] old W[?agon]’ is inscribed next to the sketch of the wagon. See also Tate D30131; Turner Bequest CCC 1a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Women's Heads; Two Seated Figures; A Cart; Two Men; A Boat; A Spire 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-womens-heads-two-seated-figures-a-cart-two-men-a-boat-a-r1203262, accessed 30 June 2024.