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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Waggon Descending a Hill on a Country Road c.1789

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Waggon Descending a Hill on a Country Road’ c.1789
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Waggon Descending a Hill on a Country Road c.1789
D40211
Turner Bequest III Ec
Pen and brown ink on white laid paper, 153 x 199 mm
Watermark ‘GR’ and lion in roundel
Inscribed in red ink ‘[...] (c)’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘III E’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The scene was identified by C.F. Bell as Rose Hill, near Oxford. The subject is continued in a few slight marks on Tate D40210 (Turner Bequest III Eb).
Technical notes:
This is one of four faces of a folded sheet of studies (see also Tate D00050, D40210 and D40212; Turner Bequest III Ea, b and d), each of which has a separate Tate accession number, following Finberg’s sequence ‘(a)’ to ‘(d)’ under his overall heading ‘Sunningwell Church’. Opened out, the sheet measures 157 x 398 mm; in its folded form it may be likened to a pamphlet, the present study being its third ‘page’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Waggon Descending a Hill on a Country Road c.1789 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-waggon-descending-a-hill-on-a-country-road-r1140105, accessed 26 April 2024.