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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > North Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View across a River towards Houses under a Wooded Hill 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View across a River towards Houses under a Wooded Hill’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
View across a River towards Houses under a Wooded Hill 1798
D01458
Turner Bequest XXXIX 94
Pencil and watercolour with some scraping-out on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped lower left with Turner Bequest monogram
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 94’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this subject, drawn with the page turned horizontally, as ‘Near Llanberis’,1 but it is more probably a view on the River Conwy. However, it may belong much later in the sequence and show a scene on the Dee.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.92.
Technical notes:
There is staining to the sky from the window of an acidic National Gallery mount. About 20 mm has been irregularly trimmed from the top edge of the drawing, and made good to reattach it at the gutter; the lower left and upper right corners were also torn away and have been made up. In 1909 Finberg recorded ‘Two leaves torn out’ after folio 33 (D01388), and suggested one of them was the present page.1
1
Ibid., p.90; see also p.92.
Verso:
Blank; slight greenish-brown paint smears; inscribed in pencil in a later hand ‘65’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View across a River towards Houses under a Wooded Hill 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-view-across-a-river-towards-houses-under-a-wooded-hill-r1173617, accessed 25 April 2024.