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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 6 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sportsman with a Gun, Seated on a Stone in a Wooded Ghyll c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun, Seated on a Stone in a Wooded Ghyll’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 301 Recto:
A Sportsman with a Gun, Seated on a Stone in a Wooded Ghyll c.1816
D11905
Turner Bequest CXLIX 301
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 93 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Stone’ lower centre
There is the traces of an inscription in red ink ‘301’top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 301’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn as Turner worked through the sketchbook from the back, and thus in reverse to the present numbering, this is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 300 verso opposite (D11904), depicting a seated sportsman with his gun, perhaps by the River Washburn or at Hall Beck Gill, the subject of contiguous sketches (see notes to folio 302 verso; D11908).

David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun, Seated on a Stone in a Wooded Ghyll c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sportsman-with-a-gun-seated-on-a-stone-in-a-wooded-ghyll-r1144050, accessed 25 September 2024.