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Joseph Mallord William Turner Austrian Soldiers, with Details of Costumes 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Austrian Soldiers, with Details of Costumes’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Austrian Soldiers, with Details of Costumes 1833
D31441
Turner Bequest CCCXI 13a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Red’ top left, ‘Red’ | ‘Brown’ ‘Light’ | ‘Red’, ‘Red’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows Austrian soldiers. Notes marking the colours in their uniform such as ‘Red’ and ‘Brown’ are inscribed.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Austrian Soldiers, with Details of Costumes 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-austrian-soldiers-with-details-of-costumes-r1203455, accessed 22 July 2024.