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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with Figures and Wagon c.1807

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Landscape with Figures and Wagon circa 1807
D06028
Turner Bequest XCVI 53
Pencil on white laid paper, 92 x 163 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘53’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCVI 53’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A country scene similar to that on folio 53 (D06026), probably at harvest time and related to his drawings around Cassiobury Park (see Introduction to the sketchbook). The sketch is perhaps also the origin of the wash drawing Harvest Scene: Wagon and Reapers (Tate D08220; Turner Bequest CXX G) which in turn served as the basis for the oil sketch or unfinished painting hitherto known as Gipsy Camp but also a harvest scene with wagon and reapers and perhaps a variant Cassiobury subject (Tate N03048).1

David Blayney Brown
October 2006

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.125–6 no.203 (pl.202).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Landscape with Figures and Wagon c.1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2006, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-landscape-with-figures-and-wagon-r1130206, accessed 28 March 2024.