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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Female Figure and Outline of Buildings; View from just outside the Walls of Stein across to Mautern 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Female Figure and Outline of Buildings; View from just outside the Walls of Stein across to Mautern’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
Female Figure and Outline of Buildings; View from just outside the Walls of Stein across to Mautern 1833
D30260
Turner Bequest CCC 66
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Partial watermark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wood’ right, centre
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘66’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation, Turner records a female figure with her hands on her hips with rough outline of buildings or landscape. At top left is part of a view of Stein and Mautern, continued from the folio opposite (Tate D30259; Turner Bequest CCC 65a). ‘Wood’ is inscribed to the right of the view.
Technical notes:
Water stains present, presumably owing to the Tate Gallery flood of 1928.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Female Figure and Outline of Buildings; View from just outside the Walls of Stein across to Mautern 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-female-figure-and-outline-of-buildings-view-from-just-r1203393, accessed 30 June 2024.