Joseph Mallord William TurnerA Traveller on a Wooded Road above an Extensive Landscape 1794-5

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Title
A Traveller on a Wooded Road above an Extensive Landscape
Date 1794-5
MediumGouache and watercolour on paper
Dimensionssupport: 179 x 256 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D00691
Turner Bequest XXVIII F
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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Traveller on a Wooded Road above an Extensive Landscape 1794–5
D00691
Turner Bequest XXVIII F
Watercolour on white wove paper mounted on a sheet of blue paper backed with a further sheet, 179 x 256 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXVIII F’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is apparently a paraphrase of one of J.R. Cozens’s (1752–1797) views of the Galeria di Sopra, near Albano, perhaps in particular the drawing now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The subject is likely to be imaginary.
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Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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