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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape, with Figures 1821-2

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Recto:
Landscape, with Figures 1821–2
D17658
Turner Bequest CC 85
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Road’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CC 85’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continuing from folio 84 verso (D17657) with the sketchbook inverted is a view of a roadway and bridge. The drawing on this page is rather faint but it appears to include two figures at the left, perhaps standing in front of the parapet of a bridge.

Thomas Ardill
November 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Landscape, with Figures 1821–2 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2008, 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-r1132999, accessed 28 March 2024.