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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wooded Scenes ?on the River Thames c.1823-4

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wooded Scenes ?on the River Thames’ c.1823-4
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Wooded Scenes ?on the River Thames c.1823–4
D17902
Turner Bequest CCV 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 98 mm
Watermark ‘1821’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, there are three similar wooded waterside scenes here, lacking obvious landmarks but probably drawn on the rural River Thames west of London; there are identified scenes around Richmond at the other end of the sketchbook; see the Introduction. Folio 40 recto opposite (D17903) may also show such a subject.
Technical notes:
There is an adventitious strip of watercolour along the left-hand edge which presumably bled from the full page design on the recto (D17901).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Wooded Scenes ?on the River Thames c.1823–4 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-wooded-scenes-on-the-river-thames-r1172616, accessed 19 April 2024.