一个女人，孩子和独轮车

Catalogue entry

This rapid study, apparently made from life in the street, is related to a group of figures in the foreground of a view of Westminster with Henry VII’s Chapel (private collection). 1 In the watercolour, the woman in a straw hat is weighing goods which she is selling from a barrow; she is accompanied by two small children. Further studies of a similar trader, perhaps the same woman, occur in the Bristol and Malmesbury sketchbook (Tate D00100 ; Turner Bequest VI 19a).

The recto of this sheet is D00124 (Turner Bequest X A).

1

Lyles 1989, p.13, reproduced; Andrew Wilton, Turner as Draughtsman , 2006, p.25, fig.3.1.

Technical notes:

The right side of the sheet is irregularly torn and cut; there are slight chalk trials at the lower left corner.

Andrew Wilton

April 2012 Read full Catalogue entry