Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Wooded Ravine

c.1809–10

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Sandycombe and Yorkshire Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 125 x 202 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D09005
Turner Bequest CXXVII 28

Catalogue entry

As set out in the Introduction, this sketchbook contains identified views of Cumbria and Sussex. Like the wooded scenes shown in D09004, D09007 and D09008 (CXXVII 27, 30, 30a), this sketch lacks prominent landmarks and cannot presently be associated with certainty with either county.
Technical notes:
This is one of a few single leaves which, with a greater number of loose bifolio sheets, constitute the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook. The folded sheets were not bound, but placed inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order).
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
January 2012

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