'A Wooded Landscape, Perhaps near the River Brent', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Wooded Landscape, Perhaps near the River Brent

From Windmill and Lock Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXIV

Date c.1808-11

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 87 x 117 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D08000

Turner Bequest CXIV 29

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 29 Recto:

A Wooded Landscape, Perhaps near the River Brent circa 1808–11

D08000
Turner Bequest CXIV 29

Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ bottom right (smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CXIV – 29’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

As set out in the Introduction, there are various landscape studies in this sketchbook, occupying several pages from folios 28 recto to 38 recto (D07999–D08010), and from folios 70 recto to 73 recto (D08051–D08056). The last of the earlier sketches show the River Brent, north-west of London, which merges with the Grand Union Canal at Hanwell, traditionally the main subject of the second grouping. Like the sketch on folio 28 recto (D07999), the present drawing may show a scene on or near a riverbank in the vicinity.

Verso:

Blank

Matthew Imms
January 2012

Read this catalogue entry in full

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