'Sketch Map of the River Severn between Ledbury and Hereford', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Sketch Map of the River Severn between Ledbury and Hereford

From Watercolours and Studies Relating to the Welsh and Marches Tours

Date ?1793

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 259 x 191 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D40268

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Sketch Map of the River Severn between Ledbury and Hereford ?1793

D40268

Pencil on white laid paper, 130 x 191 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Colwall | Ledbury | Hereford’ on map at bottom left
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram below centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘D.40268’ bottom centre, upside down

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

This very rough diagram, not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 reiterates part of the sketch map on the adjacent half of the sheet (D40270), to which it is connected by a thin, straight pencil line.

For an overview of the various works on this folded sheet, see under D00153. The other side of the present section comprises both D00153 (Turner Bequest XIII H a) and D40239 (XIII H b).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.18.

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.