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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road through Grounds Leading to a Mansion 1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
A Road through Grounds Leading to a Mansion 1816
D10982
Turner Bequest CXLIV 62
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Watermarked ‘1813’
Inscribed, possibly John Ruskin, in blue ink bled-out in red ‘62’ bottom left, inverted (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 62’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 61 verso (D10981), opposite, recording the same building (presumably) as appears on 61 recto (Tate D10980). The sketch is inverted in relation to the main sequence, which might indicate that it was added somewhere towards the later part of Turner’s itinerary.
See Introduction and Technical notes to this sketchbook for the change of ink colour, apparently from blue to red, in the numbering of this page.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Road through Grounds Leading to a Mansion 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, 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-road-through-grounds-leading-to-a-mansion-r1144171, accessed 28 March 2024.