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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Woodcock Shooting Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for a Picture, Possibly Related to 'Crossing the Brook' c.1812-13

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for a Picture, Possibly Related to 'Crossing the Brook'’ c.1812-13
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
Study for a Picture, Possibly Related to ‘Crossing the Brook’ c.1812–13
D09122
Turner Bequest CXXIX 46
Ink on white wove paper, 178 x 110 mm
Watermarked ‘J WHAT[MAN | 180[5]’
Trace of inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘46 [?]’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CXXIX 46’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The general composition bears some resemblance to Crossing the Brook (Tate N00497)1 exhibited in 1815. There are few points of specific resemblance, but the idea of the foreground figure and the water flowing to the top of an implied cascade is very close.

David Hill
October 2008

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.93–4 no.130, pl.123.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Study for a Picture, Possibly Related to ‘Crossing the Brook’ c.1812–13 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, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-for-a-picture-possibly-related-to-crossing-the-brook-r1146844, accessed 19 September 2024.