Joseph Mallord William Turner

View of the Avon from Wallis’s Wall

1791

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Bristol and Malmesbury Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 185 × 263 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D00106
Turner Bequest VI 23

Catalogue entry

This and folios 22 recto and 24 recto (D00105, D00107) were included by Ruskin in his ‘first hundred’ selected for exhibition in 1857. In his 1881 catalogue he described them as ‘Three early sketches at Clifton, when he [Turner] was twelve or thirteen years old.’1

‘Catalogue of the Drawings and Sketches by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. at Present Exhibited in the National Gallery’ in Cook and Wedderburn 1903, p.364 no.523.

Verso:

Blank; inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Twopence]’ lower right; inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘176’ lower left; stamped in blank ink ‘VI – 23’’ above Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom left.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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