J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Vale of Ashburnham ?1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Vale of Ashburnham’ ?1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
?The Vale of Ashburnham ?1816
D10312
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘941 Invent 942’ bottom left and by an unknown hand in ink ‘156’ circled, bottom right, and in blue pencil ‘205’ at centre
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, lower right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg lists this leaf as one of six which he believed ‘to have formed part of this book’. At the time of writing the present side (now bound as the recto) was laid down on a mount and he could only see the other side (D10311; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 68). The subject may be related to, or an extension of the views of parkland around Ashburnham on D10311 and D10313; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 69, for which see catalogue notes.

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?The Vale of Ashburnham ?1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-vale-of-ashburnham-r1131307, accessed 18 September 2024.