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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Bethune from the Ramparts, Barracks in the Foreground 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Bethune from the Ramparts, Barracks in the Foreground’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
?Bethune from the Ramparts, Barracks in the Foreground 1836
D29179
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘75’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not described by Finberg, this side of the page is now bound as the recto. Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook it depicts a town (perhaps Bethune as on the facing page, D29177; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 74a) from the ramparts, with barracks in the foreground.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘?Bethune from the Ramparts, Barracks in the Foreground 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-bethune-from-the-ramparts-barracks-in-the-foreground-r1144726, accessed 19 April 2024.