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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Carriage Sketch of a Rainy Landscape, Possibly Würzburg 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Carriage Sketch of a Rainy Landscape, Possibly Würzburg’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Carriage Sketch of a Rainy Landscape, Possibly Würzburg 1835
D30719
Turner Bequest CCCIV 47
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ | ‘W burg’ | ‘W’ top centre towards left; ‘[...]’ bottom centre towards right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘47’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–47’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch shows a hilly landscape with what appears to be a river or road going through it. The diagonal strokes across the page are probably supposed to suggest rainfall, but may also be crossing out. Of the largely illegible inscriptions dashed off around the page ‘W burg’ | ‘W’ can be seen at top centre towards left. This may indicate that Turner depicts the outskirts of Würzburg, a town to the northeast of Nuremberg.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Carriage Sketch of a Rainy Landscape, Possibly Würzburg 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-carriage-sketch-of-a-rainy-landscape-possibly-wurzburg-r1187095, accessed 24 April 2024.