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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Landscape Study, Perhaps for a Deluge Subject c.1802-5

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Landscape Study, Perhaps for a Deluge Subject’ c.1802-5
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Landscape Study, Perhaps for a Deluge Subject c.1802–5
D02211
Turner Bequest XLVII 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 337 x 469 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 34’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this slight sketch may be connected with three drawings loosely related to Turner’s work on a large canvas, The Deluge, probably shown at his own gallery in 1805, and at the Royal Academy in 1813 (Tate N00493);1 see D02198, D02199 and D02210 (Turner Bequest XLVII 21, 22, 33).
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Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.43–4 no.55, pl.65 (colour).
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 33, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Landscape Study, Perhaps for a Deluge Subject c.1802–5 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-landscape-study-perhaps-for-a-deluge-subject-r1174251, accessed 26 April 2024.