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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Landscape between Ghent and Bruges 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Landscape between Ghent and Bruges’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 162 Recto:
?Landscape between Ghent and Bruges 1824
D19868
Turner Bequest CCXVI 157
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘157’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–157’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This undeveloped sketch of a likely Flemish landscape is slight and very swiftly executed. A windmill is suggested at left with two single diagonally crossing lines. A boat with a tall mast is to the right of windmill, and a figure stands in the foreground at right, perhaps pushing a plough.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Landscape 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-landscape-between-ghent-and-bruges-r1174661, accessed 24 September 2024.