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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Landscape 1831
D25567
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘23’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV – 23’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook inverted there is a rough sketch of a landscape, with trees in the foreground and hills in the distance. This may have been made in the Lake District. The sketch continues on folio 22 verso (D25566).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Landscape 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-r1133927, accessed 26 April 2024.