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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Garden, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Garden, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
?A Garden, Île-de-France 1832
D24271
Turner Bequest CCLVII 54
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘54’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 54’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled with page with a perspective view take at an indeterminate location. The grid-like strokes on the right-hand side of the scene suggest a temporary structure in a formal garden such as a trellis. Similar objects appear on folio 53 verso opposite (D24270; Turner Bequest CCLVII 53a). Turner sketched many palace gardens around Paris and the Île-de-France in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?A Garden, Île-de-France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-garden-le-de-france-r1175299, accessed 05 April 2026.