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 Wooded Hillside c.1809-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Hillside’ c.1809-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Wooded Hillside circa 1809–10
D09007
Turner Bequest CXXVII 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 202 mm
Part watermark ‘lmon | 05’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 30’ bottom right
 
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. Like the wooded scenes shown in D09004, D09005 and D09008, the verso of the present leaf (CXXVII 27, 28, 30), this sketch lacks prominent landmarks and cannot currently be associated with certainty with either county.
Technical notes:
This is a face of one of a few single leaves which, with a greater number of loose bifolio sheets, constitute the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook. The folded sheets were not bound, but placed inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order).

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded Hillside 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-wooded-hillside-r1134718, accessed 23 September 2024.