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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Broken-down Diligence between Ghent and Bruges 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Broken-down Diligence between Ghent and Bruges’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 160 Recto:
?Broken-down Diligence between Ghent and Bruges 1824
D19864
Turner Bequest CCXVI 155
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘155’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–155’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, executed with quick, fluid, and vigorous strokes of pencil, may be related to Turner’s drawing on the opposite folio (Tate D19863; Turner Bequest CCXVI 154a) showing a broken-down diligence on the road between Ghent and Bruges. The form and position of the object drawn at centre, left blank by Turner but rendered in basic outline, resembles the shape and oblique angle of a stagecoach stranded in a road-side ditch depicted in CCXVI 154a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Broken-down Diligence between Ghent and Bruges 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-broken-down-diligence-between-ghent-and-bruges-r1174657, accessed 25 April 2024.