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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Palace and Parkland 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Palace and Parkland’ 1839 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
?Palace and Parkland 1839
D41093
Pencil on white wove drawing paper paste-down, 140 x 235 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Road’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough and fluidly rendered jottings show trees, a shaded figure or statue holding a vertical object, perhaps a spear, and the profile of what appears to be the same palace as shown on Tate D28350; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 30a from a distance.
Technical notes:
The leather corners of the binding have caused some discolouration in the corresponding areas of the sheet. There has also been significant offsetting of the pencil lead from the folio opposite (Tate D28350; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 30a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Palace and Parkland 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-palace-and-parkland-r1150632, accessed 25 April 2024.