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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Landscape c.1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Landscape’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
A Landscape circa 1819
D13978
Turner Bequest CLXXII 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 99 x 155 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom left, descending left-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXII 25’ bottom left, descending left-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page appears to contain a faint drawing of a building and an arched bridge. The location remains unidentified although it may predate the artist’s use of the sketchbook as a notebook relating to his Italian travels in the autumn of 1819.

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘A Landscape c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, 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-a-landscape-r1138799, accessed 26 April 2024.