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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road through a Wood 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Road through a Wood’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Road through a Wood 1798
D01627
Turner Bequest XL 95
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 95 x 135 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the upper half of a double-page vertical composition, worked up in watercolour, which was removed for exhibition and has remained separate from the sketchbook. The other half is Tate D01628 (Turner Bequest XL 96).
The only other drawing to have been completed in colour like this one is that on folios 39 verso–40 recto (Tate D01526–D01527; Turner Bequest XL 37a–38), a view of Careg Cennen in a storm.
The verso is D41451.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Road through a Wood 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-a-road-through-a-wood-r1173864, accessed 24 April 2024.