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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sportsman with a Gun and two Gun Dogs on the Moors near Hall Beck Gill c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun and two Gun Dogs on the Moors near Hall Beck Gill’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 300 Recto:
A Sportsman with a Gun and two Gun Dogs on the Moors near Hall Beck Gill c.1816
D11903
Turner Bequest CXLIX 300
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 93 mm
There is the trace of an inscription in red ink ‘300’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 300’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn as Turner worked through the sketchbook from the back, and thus in reverse to the present numbering, this is the left half of a double-page spread continued to the right on folio 299 verso opposite (D11902), recording a sportsman and his dogs on open moorland scene presumably near Hall Beck Gill (see notes to folio 302 verso; D11908), the subject of contiguous sketches.

David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Sportsman with a Gun and two Gun Dogs on the Moors near Hall Beck Gill c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sportsman-with-a-gun-and-two-gun-dogs-on-the-moors-near-r1144048, accessed 19 April 2024.