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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mansion, with Trees, on Eminence, with River in Foreground 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mansion, with Trees, on Eminence, with River in Foreground’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Mansion, with Trees, on Eminence, with River in Foreground 1821
D18554
Turner Bequest CCXI 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘2’, ‘D’, ‘8’, ‘7’, ‘D’ above the trees and mansion at the left; ‘0’, ‘0’ on the trees at the left, ‘SR’ over the small tree at the lower left; ‘g’, ‘g’, ‘D’ around the trees immediately to the right of the mansion; ‘3’ [inverted], ‘0’, ‘3’[inverted], ‘3’, ‘4’on the trees at the right-hand side of the page
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of two sketches of an unidentified mansion on a rise above a river; there is a view from closer to on folio 17 verso (Tate D18550; Turner Bequest CCXI 19a). Turner has inscribed various letters and numbers over different parts of the picture. They may represent different colours according to the artist’s own idiosyncratic system. The sketch continues at the left on folio 20 (Tate D18555; Turner Bequest CCXI 20).

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Mansion, with Trees, on Eminence, with River in Foreground 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mansion-with-trees-on-eminence-with-river-in-foreground-r1146250, accessed 19 April 2024.