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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded Landscape, with Figures beside Water c.1823-4

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Landscape, with Figures beside Water’ c.1823-4
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
A Wooded Landscape, with Figures beside Water c.1823–4
D17882
Turner Bequest CCV 27
Watercolour on white wove paper, 98 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘1821’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘27’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCV – 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this scene Turner evokes a nameless drama, as figures gather beside dark water in a woodland glade. It is one of a sequence of fourteen monochrome, tonal studies of landscapes and cloudy skies running from about the middle of the sketchbook onwards; for the others and further discussion, see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded Landscape, with Figures beside Water c.1823–4 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-wooded-landscape-with-figures-beside-water-r1172594, accessed 23 September 2024.