Joseph Mallord William Turner

The River Dee at Corwen; Man Fishing and Cattle Watering

1808

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Tabley No.2 Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 98 × 162 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D06914
Turner Bequest CIV 44 a

Catalogue entry

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.
See Introduction to the sketchbook for Turner’s trip into North Wales from Tabley in 1808 and folio 29 verso (D06893; Turner Bequest CIV 28a) for a drawing related to the picture Trout Fishing in the Dee, Corwen Bridge and Cottage (Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio)1 perhaps begun back at Tabley.
In this and another sketch on folios 46 verso–47 (D06916–D06917; Turner Bequest CIV 45a– 46) the viewpoint is from closer to the bridge and cattle are more prominent in the foreground than in 29 verso or in the picture.

David Blayney Brown
May 2010

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.68 no.92 (pl.102).

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