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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > Isle of Wight Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Figure on a Hillside Path, with a View over a Plain Beyond ?1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Figure on a Hillside Path, with a View over a Plain Beyond’ ?1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
A Figure on a Hillside Path, with a View over a Plain Beyond ?1798
D00459
Turner Bequest XXIV 50
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 204 x 264 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘50’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXIV 50’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is probably close to that of folio 53 recto (D00460; Turner Bequest XXIV 51), and may be the Greensand Ridge overlooking the Weald of Kent between Sevenoaks and West Malling. The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.
As Finberg notes,1 this leaf, folio 53 recto and folio 54 recto (D00461; Turner Bequest XXIV 52) were loose and may have come either from this book or from the South Wales sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XXVI). They seem to date stylistically to about 1798 and therefore probably belong with the group of drawings in that book from Turner’s 1798 tour of Kent; see Tate D00627–D00649, D00654–D00658 (Turner Bequest XXVI 71– 87v, 92–96).
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.43.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Figure on a Hillside Path, with a View over a Plain Beyond ?1798 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-a-figure-on-a-hillside-path-with-a-view-over-a-plain-beyond-r1141037, accessed 25 April 2024.