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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Margate, London and Surrey c.1829-45 > Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded Landscape and ?a Landscape with a Tower, Possibly in Kent c.1830

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Landscape and ?a Landscape with a Tower, Possibly in Kent’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
A Wooded Landscape and ?a Landscape with a Tower, Possibly in Kent c.1830
D35789
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 76 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘17’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXIII – 17’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, at the top is a view of what seems to be a wooded river valley, possibly with a tower in the far distance towards the right. Below is a hastier sketch, with three vertical marks at the right possibly indicating a square tower seen on the diagonal. The subjects are likely to be in Kent (see the sketchbook’s Introduction), but so slight as to be effectively unidentifiable.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded Landscape and ?a Landscape with a Tower, Possibly in Kent c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-wooded-landscape-and-a-landscape-with-a-tower-possibly-in-r1183753, accessed 19 April 2024.