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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Village Seen beyond Trees, with a River in the Foreground c.1799-1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Village Seen beyond Trees, with a River in the Foreground’ c.1799-1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Village Seen beyond Trees, with a River in the Foreground c.1799–1807
D02201
Turner Bequest XLVII 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 338 x 469 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 24’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See the entry for D02200 (Turner Bequest XLVII 23): this may be a village near Fonthill.
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 36, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Village Seen beyond Trees, with a River in the Foreground c.1799–1807 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-a-village-seen-beyond-trees-with-a-river-in-the-foreground-r1174254, accessed 26 April 2024.