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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Woodland Road ?1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Woodland Road’ ?1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Recto:
A Woodland Road ?1799
D01813
Turner Bequest XLII 137
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘137’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 137’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 68 verso opposite (D01812; Turner Bequest XLII 136), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Woodland Road ?1799 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-a-woodland-road-r1174008, accessed 26 April 2024.