- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 613 × 838 mm
frame: 967 × 1180 × 133 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- N00467
Catalogue entry
82. [N00467] Sketch of a Bank, with Gipsies Exh. 1809?
THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (467)
Canvas, 24 1/2 × 33 (61·5 × 84)
Coll. Turner Bequest 1856 (?89, ‘Cows on a Hill’ 4'9 1/2" × 3'0 1/2"); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1910.
Exh. ?Turner's gallery 1809 (1); Tate Gallery 1931 (41); Amsterdam, Berne, Paris, Brussels, Liege (14), Venice and Rome (16) 1947–8; Arts Council tour 1952 (8); Tate Gallery 1973–4 (205, repr.).
Engr. Etched by Turner for the Liber Studiorum R.91, but not published (two impressions repr. Finberg 1924, pp. 364–5).
Lit. Thornbury 1862, i, p. 262; 1877, p. 418; Armstrong 1902, p. 228; MacColl 1920, p. 4; Finberg 1924, p. 365, repr. p. 364; Rothenstein and Butlin 1964, p. 27; Gage 1965, p. 79; Lindsay 1966, p. 106.
Probably the work of this title exhibited at Turner's gallery in 1809. Perhaps in part based on sketches in the ‘Cows’ sketchbook (LXII, especially pp. 10 and 13 for the left-hand cow).
Published in:
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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