'A Horse and Rider on a Crest with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Horse and Rider on a Crest with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes

From Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CLVII

Date 1817

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 116 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D12360

Turner Bequest CLVII 30

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 30 Recto:

A Horse and Rider on a Crest with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817

D12360
Turner Bequest CLVII 30

Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLVII – 30’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This one of a sequence of mostly unidentified landscape sketches running from folio 27 verso (D12355) to folio 33 recto (D12366), with a further two on folio 50 recto (D12384) and folios 51 verso–52 recto (D12386, D12387). As discussed in the entry for folio 27 verso, they are likely to show scenes on the moors and hills around Bowes, south-west of Barnard Castle.

A horse and rider are cursorily indicated on a summit in the foreground, as if surveying the scene. The distant hills are continued for half the width of folio 29 verso opposite (D12359).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.