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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wooded Hills: ?The South Downs near Bignor 1796

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wooded Hills: ?The South Downs near Bignor’ 1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Wooded Hills: ?The South Downs near Bignor 1796
D00762
Turner Bequest XXX 31a
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 126 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards top right
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued from folio 33 recto opposite (D00763; Turner Bequest XXX 32). The view is probably a part of the South Downs near Bignor, above Chichester.

Andrew Wilton
May 2011

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Wooded Hills: ?The South Downs near Bignor 1796 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-wooded-hills-the-south-downs-near-bignor-r1149714, accessed 05 April 2026.