'?A Town by a River', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

?A Town by a River

From Lake Thun Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXVI

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 156 x 201 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D04709

Turner Bequest LXXVI 52

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 52 Recto:

?A Town by a River 1802

D04709
Turner Bequest LXXVI 52

Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Aborde’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘52’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 52’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The subject is unidentified. The town in the middle distance seems to be repeated in a slight outline in ink on folio 51 verso (D40783).

Verso:

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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘602’ top left, descending vertically

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

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

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

Switzerland

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Lake Thun Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest

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Turner's sketchbooks