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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of ?a Pile of Timber, with a Sawpit 1798-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of ?a Pile of Timber, with a Sawpit’ 1798-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Study of ?a Pile of Timber, with a Sawpit 1798–9
D01683
Turner Bequest XLII 8
Pencil on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 8’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch may record a scene in Bristol harbour; see folios 13 verso–14 recto (D01701–D01702; Turner Bequest XLII 26–27). Alternatively, it may have been noted at Fonthill, where this sketchbook was also in use in 1799: see folios 6 verso–7 recto (D01687–D01688; Turner Bequest XLII 12–13). Timber felling and related activities were part of William Beckford’s work on the house and estate which Turner was employed to record.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of ?a Pile of Timber, with a Sawpit 1798–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-study-of-a-pile-of-timber-with-a-sawpit-r1173879, accessed 23 April 2024.