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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Eu and Treport Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded Bank ?in Upper Normandy 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Bank ?in Upper Normandy’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Wooded Bank ?in Upper Normandy 1845
D35446
Turner Bequest CCCLIX 11
Pencil, watercolour, and pen and ink on white wove paper, 228 x 330 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘11’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCCLIX 11’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of a river or lake in a wooded valley is achieved largely with highly liquid washes. On the right bank are featured scratchy brown pen lines, perhaps intended to represent pollarded willows. The view may have been taken close to a comparable scene from the sketchbook; see D35444 (Turner Bequest CCCLIX 9).
Verso:
This sketch was worked into one of the sketchbook’s inside covers; the verso is still attached to the volume’s practical green paper cover.

John Chu
February 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘A Wooded Bank ?in Upper Normandy 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-bank-in-upper-normandy-r1173542, accessed 16 May 2024.