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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Richmond Hill; Hastings to Margate ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches; Sandling; Cypress and Lilacs; River Scene with Sailing Boats &c c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches; Sandling; Cypress and Lilacs; River Scene with Sailing Boats &c’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
Four Sketches; Sandling; Cypress and Lilacs; River Scene with Sailing Boats &c circa 1816–19
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Turner Bequest CXL 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sandling C’, ‘W’, ‘Cypress Lylack | in bloom’ within images on upper part of the leaf and ‘wall’ within lower image, left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘43’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXL 43’ bottom right, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Sandling is just north of Hythe and Saltwood. Turner’s sketches might be of trees in the gardens at Sandlands (Sandling Park), the estate then owned by William Deedes. The river scene is unidentified.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Four Sketches; Sandling; Cypress and Lilacs; River Scene with Sailing Boats &c c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, 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-four-sketches-sandling-cypress-and-lilacs-river-scene-with-r1131485, accessed 20 April 2024.