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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Liber Studiorum notes c.1807-19 > Aesacus and Hesperie Sketchbook > Artwork

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded River Landscape, Possibly on the Thames’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
A Wooded River Landscape, Possibly on the Thames c.1819
D13790
Turner Bequest CLXIX 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 119 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘26’ top left, upside down (faint and smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CLXIX – 26’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the sketch continues on folio 25 verso opposite (D13789), under which the subject is discussed.

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-r1147513, accessed 23 April 2024.