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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Riders on a Road Descending a Cliff by the Sea 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Riders on a Road Descending a Cliff by the Sea’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Two Riders on a Road Descending a Cliff by the Sea 1795
D00547
Turner Bequest XXV 82a
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 205 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although bound into the book upside-down and among the apparently later, loose drawings of trees on folios 35 verso, 80 verso and 81 verso (D00497, D00543, D00545), this is evidently a study from the same time as the Welsh subjects at the front of the book. The cliffs may be part of the formation recorded in folio 24 recto (D00485). This subject is repeated more summarily on folio 83 verso (D00549).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Riders on a Road Descending a Cliff by the Sea 1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-two-riders-on-a-road-descending-a-cliff-by-the-sea-r1140868, accessed 23 September 2024.