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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Horse and Rider on a Crest with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Horse and Rider on a Crest with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
A Horse and Rider on a Crest with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817
D12360
Turner Bequest CLVII 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLVII – 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This one of a sequence of mostly unidentified landscape sketches running from folio 27 verso (D12355) to folio 33 recto (D12366), with a further two on folio 50 recto (D12384) and folios 51 verso–52 recto (D12386, D12387). As discussed in the entry for folio 27 verso, they are likely to show scenes on the moors and hills around Bowes, south-west of Barnard Castle.
A horse and rider are cursorily indicated on a summit in the foreground, as if surveying the scene. The distant hills are continued for half the width of folio 29 verso opposite (D12359).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Horse and Rider on a Crest with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2010, 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-horse-and-rider-on-a-crest-with-distant-hills-probably-on-r1139361, accessed 26 April 2024.