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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Landscape, Possibly with a Stream or Waterfall c.1808-18

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Landscape, Possibly with a Stream or Waterfall’ c.1808-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
A Landscape, Possibly with a Stream or Waterfall c.1808–18
D12129
Turner Bequest CLIV a 3a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There appear to be hills and trees in the distance but there is otherwise little sense of scale, so that the size and nature of the features in the foreground are unclear. They may be some form of watercourse, as Finberg suggests. The sketch continues on folio 4 recto opposite (D12130).
Technical notes:
The central portion of the left-hand edge has irregular losses, presumably caused by rubbing against the clasp of the original cover (see the Introduction to the sketchbook), similarly affecting the leaves from folio 1 (D12124, D12125) as far as folio 6 (the recto of which is D12132). There is a pale brown stain radiating from the centre of the left-hand edge, again apparently caused by proximity to the original clasp.

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Landscape, Possibly with a Stream or Waterfall c.1808–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, 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-a-landscape-possibly-with-a-stream-or-waterfall-r1147545, accessed 27 April 2024.