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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded Landscape with a Canal c.1807-14

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Landscape with a Canal’ c.1807-14
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
A Wooded Landscape with a Canal c.1807–14
D08341
Turner Bequest CXXII 36a
Pencil on white wove paper, 69 x 112 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘canal’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In common with other drawings in this sketchbook (see the Introduction), the setting of this slight sketch of a canal between wooded banks, inverted relative to the foliation, may be in or around the Thames Valley.
Technical notes:
There is some rubbing and offsetting from the drawing on folio 37 recto opposite (D08342).

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded Landscape with a Canal c.1807–14 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-wooded-landscape-with-a-canal-r1147818, accessed 19 September 2024.