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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Trials; ?a Landscape c.1799-1807

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colour Trials; ?a Landscape’ c.1799-1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Colour Trials; ?a Landscape c.1799–1807
D41467
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 433 x 335 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘xlii 42’ bottom left
Stamped in black with Turner bequest monogram above ‘XLVII – 42’ towards bottom left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory,1 these watercolour tests are on the verso of part of a pencil drawing of Cassiobury (D02219; Turner Bequest XLVII 42). There are also rough pencil forms which may indicate clouds over a wooded skyline.
1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.122.
Technical notes:
The sheet was torn from the book at the left and folded vertically, perhaps to facilitate viewing alongside the main part of the view noted on the recto. For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 56 verso, see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
February 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Colour Trials; ?a Landscape c.1799–1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, 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-colour-trials-a-landscape-r1174275, accessed 26 April 2024.