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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Sandycombe Lodge c.1808-12 > Sandycombe and Yorkshire Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Rocky Cliff and Wooded Gorge, with Distant Buildings on a Hill c.1809-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Rocky Cliff and Wooded Gorge, with Distant Buildings on a Hill’ c.1809-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Rocky Cliff and Wooded Gorge, with Distant Buildings on a Hill circa 1809–10
D08986
Turner Bequest CXXVII 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 126 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ top left, upside down (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 16’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out in the Introduction, this sketchbook contains identified views of Cumbria and Sussex, although the present sketch, lacking prominent landmarks, cannot presently be associated with certainty with either county.
Technical notes:
This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with the verso of D08985 (CXXVII 15); the measurements given above are for the present work alone.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Rocky Cliff and Wooded Gorge, with Distant Buildings on a Hill c.1809–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-a-rocky-cliff-and-wooded-gorge-with-distant-buildings-on-a-r1134697, accessed 25 April 2024.