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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River, Hills and Trees, Perhaps near Worcester; a Range of Low Buildings ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A River, Hills and Trees, Perhaps near Worcester; a Range of Low Buildings’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Recto:
A River, Hills and Trees, Perhaps near Worcester; a Range of Low Buildings ?1831
D22315
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 88
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘w willow’ towards bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘88’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 88’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Ian Warrell has suggested,1 this may be a scene on the River Severn near Worcester, the definite subject on adjacent pages; for other views of Worcester, see under folio 2 verso (D22154). The low buildings in the separate study at the top right appear to be medieval or Tudor in style, but are as yet unidentified.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

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Ian Warrell, notes from 1993 and later in Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A River, Hills and Trees, Perhaps near Worcester; a Range of Low Buildings ?1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-river-hills-and-trees-perhaps-near-worcester-a-range-of-r1148963, accessed 24 April 2024.