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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River or Coastal Inlet Seen through Trees Growing along a Road 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A River or Coastal Inlet Seen through Trees Growing along a Road’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
A River or Coastal Inlet Seen through Trees Growing along a Road 1798
D01569
Turner Bequest XL 62
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 135 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘62’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XL – 62’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This summary note is drawn lengthways across the opening, with the lower half of the composition on folio 63 verso opposite (D01568; Turner Bequest XL 61a), under which the subject is discussed.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in red ink ‘31’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A River or Coastal Inlet Seen through Trees Growing along a Road 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-river-or-coastal-inlet-seen-through-trees-growing-along-a-r1173808, accessed 06 May 2025.