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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Forge under a Cliff, with a River and High Wooded Banks 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Forge under a Cliff, with a River and High Wooded Banks’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?A Forge under a Cliff, with a River and High Wooded Banks 1798
D01650
Turner Bequest XLI 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 286 x 460 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘XLI – 19a’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location of this subject is uncertain. Like D01648 (Turner Bequest XLI 18a), the drawing does not seem to relate to St Donat’s (see the rectos of that sheet and the present one; D01647, D01649; Turner Bequest XLI 18, 19), but may show a scene on the Wye. Alternatively, it was perhaps noted on the river Teifi near Cilgerran; see the contemporary Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01279; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 28). At any rate, it was clearly of interest to Turner on account of the industrial activity associated with the kiln or forge he shows, and he has jotted down notes of the workers he saw there.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?A Forge under a Cliff, with a River and High Wooded Banks 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-a-forge-under-a-cliff-with-a-river-and-high-wooded-banks-r1173266, accessed 25 April 2024.