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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded River Landscape, Possibly on the Thames c.1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded River Landscape, Possibly on the Thames’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
A Wooded River Landscape, Possibly on the Thames c.1819
D13789
Turner Bequest CLXIX 25a
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 119 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Beautiful’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view of the Thames Valley westwards from Richmond Hill on folios 17 verso–18 recto (D13778, D13779) appears to be inscribed ‘Windsor’, hence Finberg’s suggestion of the locality of the present sketch, which may well show the River Thames. The study, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, continues on folio 26 recto opposite (D13790).

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded River Landscape, Possibly on the Thames c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-wooded-river-landscape-possibly-on-the-thames-r1147512, accessed 26 April 2024.