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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sportsman with a Gun, Seated on a Stone in a Wooded Ghyll c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun, Seated on a Stone in a Wooded Ghyll’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 300 Verso:
A Sportsman with a Gun, Seated on a Stone in a Wooded Ghyll c.1816
D11904
Turner Bequest CXLIX 300a
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 93 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn as Turner worked through the sketchbook from the back, and thus in reverse to the present numbering, this is the right half of a double-page spread continued from folio 301 recto opposite (D11905), depicting a lone sportsman with his gun, seated by the side of a rocky ghyll, presumably near Hall Beck Gill (see notes to folio 302 verso; D11908), the subject of contiguous sketches, and possibly beside the River Washburn or Hall Beck Gill itself. The sketch is comparable in general terms to a sepia study of Huntsmen in the Wood (British Museum, London)1 usually dated about 1824.

David Hill
October 2008

1
British Museum 1861.08.10.31.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun, Seated on a Stone in a Wooded Ghyll c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sportsman-with-a-gun-seated-on-a-stone-in-a-wooded-ghyll-r1144049, accessed 13 May 2025.