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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the Avon from Wallis's Wall 1791

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of the Avon from Wallis's Wall’ 1791
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
View of the Avon from Wallis’s Wall 1791
D00106
Turner Bequest VI 23
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 185 x 263 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘from Wallase’s [sic] Wall looking up the R Avon’ top right
Stamped in black ‘VI – 23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This and folios 22 recto and 24 recto (D00105, D00107) were included by Ruskin in his ‘first hundred’ selected for exhibition in 1857. In his 1881 catalogue he described them as ‘Three early sketches at Clifton, when he [Turner] was twelve or thirteen years old.’1
1
‘Catalogue of the Drawings and Sketches by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. at Present Exhibited in the National Gallery’ in Cook and Wedderburn 1903, p.364 no.523.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Twopence]’ lower right; inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘176’ lower left; stamped in blank ink ‘VI – 23’’ above Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom left.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View of the Avon from Wallis’s Wall 1791 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-view-of-the-avon-from-walliss-wall-r1140157, accessed 19 April 2024.