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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Snowy Landscape: ?Lewisham 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Snowy Landscape: ?Lewisham’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Snowy Landscape: ?Lewisham 1796–7
D01182
Turner Bequest XXXVII 65
Pencil with black and white chalks on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A.J. Finberg assumed1 that this and the drawing on folio 31 verso opposite (D01181; Turner Bequest XXXVII 64), formed a single view. That does not appear to be the case, and in fact the two studies are in different media. Another snow scene, perhaps at Lewisham, is on folios 33 verso–34 recto (D01185–D01186; Turner Bequest XXXVII 68–69).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.81.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Snowy Landscape: ?Lewisham 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-snowy-landscape-lewisham-r1149872, accessed 26 April 2024.