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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Landscapes beside a Lake c.1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Landscapes beside a Lake’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Two Landscapes beside a Lake circa 1819
D13972
Turner Bequest CLXXII 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 99 x 155 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Lake’ and ‘Reeds’ below top sketch
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ top right, ascending right hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXII 22’ top right, ascending right hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The locations of the landscapes in these two faint pencil sketches remain unidentified. The lower drawing appears to show a large house designed in the style of English Palladianism beside a lake, whilst the sketch at the top is a view of the shore of a lake. They may represent English subjects which predate the artist’s use of the sketchbook as a notebook relating to his Italian travels in the autumn of 1819. The house bears some resemblance to Basildon Park in Berkshire, and to Tabley House in Cheshire, the seat of Turner’s patron Sir John Leicester.

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Landscapes beside a Lake c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-two-landscapes-beside-a-lake-r1138793, accessed 19 April 2024.