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 Figures with a Horse and Cart in a Landscape with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures with a Horse and Cart in a Landscape with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Figures with a Horse and Cart in a Landscape with Distant Hills, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817
D12361
Turner Bequest CLVII 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?G]’ twice centre 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.
There is a figure on the hillside to the left near a rectangular object or objects, perhaps deposited by or to be loaded on the two-wheeled cart nearby. Beyond is a valley with a house by a road or river. Turner’s inscriptions may be colour notes. The view continues with distant hills on folio 31 recto opposite (D12362).

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Figures with a Horse and Cart in a Landscape 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-figures-with-a-horse-and-cart-in-a-landscape-with-distant-r1139362, accessed 20 September 2024.