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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks in a Stream, with a Fence and Trees Beyond ?1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks in a Stream, with a Fence and Trees Beyond’ ?1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Rocks in a Stream, with a Fence and Trees Beyond ?1799
D02192
Turner Bequest XLVII 15
Black chalk and pencil on white wove paper, 340 x 471 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 15’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this drawing is plausibly grouped with the studies in this sketchbook made at Fonthill, though there is no specific evidence of its location.
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 8, see the Introduction.
Verso:
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocks in a Stream, with a Fence and Trees Beyond ?1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-rocks-in-a-stream-with-a-fence-and-trees-beyond-r1174224, accessed 25 April 2024.