Graphite and watercolour on paper
Watercolours Including Midland Subjects
Watercolours Including Midland Subjects
Midlands 1794-1802
Midlands 1794-1802
Cambridgeshire
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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An Old Woman in a Cottage Kitchen Internal a Cottage a at Ely
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: postures and motions
adults
apron
basket
birth to death
bottle
Cambridgeshire
cauldron
chair
clothing and personal items
domestic
domestic
East Anglia
Ely - non-specific
England
England, East
fire, open
fireplace
furnishings
hat, cap
heating and lighting
hour glass
interiors
jar
jug
kitchen
kitchen
laundry
objects
oven
people
places
poker
saucepan
scientific and measuring
sitting
stool
sunbeam
symbols and personifications
transience - hour glass
tub
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
vessels and containers
washing line
weather
woman
<p>This painting was shown at the Royal Academy in 1796, along with Turner's first exhibited oil, 'Fishermen at Sea' (represented in this display by a photograph on the facing wall), which also features a dramatic scheme of light within a dark space. Here Turner's Picturesque interest in rustic domesticity has been developed through the influence of the tonalities and parallel subject matter of seventeenth century Dutch genre painting. This is perhaps directly acknowledged by the inclusion of a piece of blue and white Delft style pottery in the left foreground.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
4 June 2007 – 3 February 2008
2008-02-03
4 June 2007 – 3 February 2008
2008-02-03
2007-06-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-06-04
From Architecture to Landscape; Early Work
Collection based display
26 October 2013 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
26 October 2013 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
2013-10-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-10-26
The Nature of Common Life: Drawing the Everyday 1800 - 60
Collection based display
21 March 2018 – 10 January 2021
2021-01-10
21 March 2018 – 26 August 2018
2018-08-26
2018-03-21
Chiostro del Bramante (Rome, Italy)
http://www.chiostrodelbramante.it/
24 September 2018 – 17 February 2019
2019-02-17
2018-09-24
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
26 March 2019 – 28 July 2019
2019-07-28
2019-03-26
Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda (Santiago, Chile)
1 October 2019 – 28 February 2020
2020-02-28
2019-10-01
Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic, USA)
2018-03-21
Turner Watercolours
Tate partnerships & programmes
An Old Woman in a Cottage Kitchen (‘Internal of a Cottage, a Study at Ely’)
support: 204 × 270 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> was shown at the Royal Academy in  1796, along with Turner's first exhibited oil,  'Fishermen at Sea' (represented in this display by  a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> on the facing wall), which also  features a dramatic scheme of light within a dark  space. Here Turner's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/picturesque" title="Glossary definition for 'Picturesque'"><span>Picturesque</span></a> interest in  rustic domesticity has been developed through the  influence of the tonalities and parallel subject  matter of seventeenth century Dutch <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/genre-painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Genre Painting'"><span>genre  painting</span></a>. This is perhaps directly acknowledged by  the inclusion of a piece of blue and white Delft  style pottery in the left foreground.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults apron basket birth to death bottle Cambridgeshire cauldron chair clothing and personal items domestic domestic East Anglia Ely - non-specific England England, East fire, open fireplace furnishings hat, cap heating and lighting hour glass interiors jar jug kitchen kitchen laundry objects oven people places poker saucepan scientific and measuring sitting stool sunbeam symbols and personifications transience - hour glass tub UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions vessels and containers washing line weather woman
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