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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern France 1832 > Loose Studies of Paris and the Seine > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Riverside Terrain c.1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Riverside Terrain’ c.1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Riverside Terrain c.1833
D40104
White chalk on blue paper, 139 x 194 mm
Stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCXXII – F’ bottom left
Inscribed in pencil ‘501’ bottom left and ‘CCXXII’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing was not recorded by Finberg in his Turner Bequest Inventory. Very faint white chalk marks are apparent across the centre of this sheet although they are too light to identify a subject with certainty. Nonetheless, a pair of arches towards the bottom right-hand corner may suggest a bridge traversing a river.
Technical notes:
The verso of this sheet is catalogued under the entry for Tate D20265 (Turner Bequest CCXXII F). There are small smudges of blue and red paint towards the top left-hand corner.

John Chu
August 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Riverside Terrain c.1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-riverside-terrain-r1173062, accessed 26 April 2024.