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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks above the Wye, with a View of the Severn Beyond 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks above the Wye, with a View of the Severn Beyond’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Rocks above the Wye, with a View of the Severn Beyond 1798
D01262
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 12’ bottom left, descending vertically
The location of this subject, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is apparently the Wyndcliff, where the road from Chepstow to Monmouth skirts the steep drop to the valley of the Wye. Like the study on the preceding page, folio 15 recto (D01335; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 81), this sketch was perhaps used as a source for the Liber Studiorum plate (see under Tate D08132; Turner Bequest CXVII E), and hence for the late painting derived from it Landscape with a River and Bay in the Distance (Musée du Louvre, Paris).1
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.299–300 no.509, pl.511 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocks above the Wye, with a View of the Severn Beyond 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-rocks-above-the-wye-with-a-view-of-the-severn-beyond-r1173154, accessed 24 April 2024.