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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Offset of Trees on a Sunlit Hillside with a River or Lake in the Foreground c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Offset of Trees on a Sunlit Hillside with a River or Lake in the Foreground’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 96 Verso:
Offset of Trees on a Sunlit Hillside with a River or Lake in the Foreground c.1799–1802
D04112
Turner Bequest LXIX 97v
Coloured chalks on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory,1 this adventitious offset of coloured chalks from the landscape composition on folio 120 recto (D04138; Turner Bequest LXIX 121) indicates that the pages were once bound consecutively.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.173.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Offset of Trees on a Sunlit Hillside with a River or Lake in the Foreground c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-offset-of-trees-on-a-sunlit-hillside-with-a-river-or-lake-in-r1177990, accessed 18 April 2024.