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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Composition with a ?Moonlit Landscape c.1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Recto:
Composition with a ?Moonlit Landscape c.1799
D02341
Turner Bequest XLIX 83
Pencil on white laid paper, 150 x 121 mm
Part watermark: oval surmounted by a crown
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘83’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XLIX – 83’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this slight study occupies the left-hand half.
Verso:
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Composition with a ?Moonlit Landscape c.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-composition-with-a-moonlit-landscape-r1174213, accessed 28 March 2024.