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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wooded Hills, ?Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wooded Hills, ?Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Wooded Hills, ?Île-de-France 1832
D24210
Turner Bequest CCLVII 23
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘H G[...]d’ towards top left, R[...] left centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘23’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 23’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner worked small views of wooded hillsides with a large building onto the upper half of this page. Although the scenery is too generic to identify the location definitively, this volume contains multiple views of the countryside in the Île-de-France region around Paris as outlined in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Wooded Hills, ?Île-de-France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-wooded-hills-le-de-france-r1175238, accessed 23 April 2024.