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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner House and Timber 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘House and Timber’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
House and Timber 1824
D19603
Turner Bequest CCXVI 26 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘?Cluney’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures a house situated at the foot of hills in the Meuse valley; logs are piled high in the grounds at left. The land between Liège, Huy and Namur is lush with woods and forests to this day, so it may be that the artist shows logs felled from this particular territory (see also Tate D19606; Turner Bequest CCXVI 28).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘House and Timber 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, 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-house-and-timber-r1174391, accessed 16 April 2024.