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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River or Coastal Inlet Seen through Trees Growing along a Road 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A River or Coastal Inlet Seen through Trees Growing along a Road’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
A River or Coastal Inlet Seen through Trees Growing along a Road 1798
D01568
Turner Bequest XL 61a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 135 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘32’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XL – 61 a’ bottom right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This summary note is drawn lengthways across the opening, with the top of the composition on folio 64 recto opposite (D01569; Turner Bequest XL 62). Turner’s itinerary touched the coast at several points between Cardiff and Aberystwyth; it is not possible to say where this sketch was made, though it may depict the estuary of the Tywi, which is shown on folios 67 verso–68 recto (D01574–D01575; Turner Bequest 65a–66).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A River or Coastal Inlet Seen through Trees Growing along a Road 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-river-or-coastal-inlet-seen-through-trees-growing-along-a-r1173807, accessed 24 April 2024.