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J. M. W. Turner at a Drawing Table (recto), Mrs. Monro Asleep (verso)
about 1795
1996.155
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
7-1/8 x 6-1/4 in.
Mark Descriptioninscribed in pencil, verso: Wm Turner | inscribed in pencil, lower left: J. M. W. Turner
Accession NumberBequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteEstate of Kurt F. Pantzer; donated to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1996
Turner never sat for a portrait, fearing that "people will say such a little fellow as this can never draw."
Like all Turner portraits, this first by Dr. Thomas Monro was surreptitiously taken as the artist sat at the drawing table copying a Cozens watercolor by candlelight in Monro's London townhouse one winter's evening between 1794 and 1797.
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