'A Traveller on a Wooded Road above an Extensive Landscape', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Traveller on a Wooded Road above an Extensive Landscape

From Watercolours Including Midland Subjects

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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Catalogue entry

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

References

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.

Verso:

Blank

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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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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Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

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