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 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rye from the Marsh c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rye from the Marsh’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Rye from the Marsh circa 1816–18
D10370
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wall’ lower left, ‘Road’ lower centre and ‘Man standing on | sand’ lower right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin ‘22’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIX 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, and continued on folio 21 verso (D10369), for which see catalogue note. This half of Turner’s double-spread includes a Martello Tower on the left, which Turner omitted from the watercolour based on the drawing (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff)1 and engraved by Edward Goodall in 1824 for Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England. As noted under D10369, this was only one of a number of very imaginative changes to the foreground in the watercolour.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

1
Wilton 1979, pp.353–4 no.471.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Rye from the Marsh c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-rye-from-the-marsh-r1131598, accessed 26 April 2024.