Oil paint on oak
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Gipsy Camp
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
animals: mammals
cart
cow
dog - non-specific
ethnicity
figure
group
groups
gypsy
landscape
people
society
transport: land
wooded
painting oil paint oak
Gipsy Camp
support: 1219 × 914 mm
frame: 1390 × 1080 × 117 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><b>203. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-gipsy-camp-n03048" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03048</span></a>]<b> Gipsy Camp</b> c. 1807–9
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<br/>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (3048)
<br/>Oak, 48 × 36 (122 × 91·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (? 265, ‘1 (panel upright)’ 4'0" × 3'0"); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1922.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Rothenstein 1949, p. 6; colour pl. 3.</p>
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<p>Close in style, technique and its wooden support to <i>Cassiobury Park: Reaping</i> (No. 209a [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-cassiobury-park-reaping-n04663" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04663</span></a>]) and like it probably close in date and intention to the large Thames sketches on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> (Nos. 160–76), though presumably definitely painted indoors. It is also close to <i>The Quiet Ruin</i> (No. 83 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-quiet-ruin-cattle-in-water-a-sketch-evening-n00487" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00487</span></a>]) and <i>Sketch of a Bank, with Gipsies</i> (No. 82 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-sketch-of-a-bank-with-gipsies-n00467" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00467</span></a>]), which were probably exhibited in Turner's gallery in 1809. As in these, the cows are probably based on studies in the ‘Cows’ sketchbook (LXII).
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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adults animals: mammals cart cow dog - non-specific ethnicity figure group groups gypsy landscape people society transport: land wooded