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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Villages and Trees, ? Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Villages and Trees, ? Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Villages and Trees, ? Île-de-France 1832
D24218
Turner Bequest CCLVII 27
Pencil on white laid paper, 127 x 175 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C[...]ieg[...]’ top centre, ‘E[...]q[...]r’ towards bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked three small views of villages down the length of this page. Illegible notes on the top and bottom sketches are presumably place names identifying the scenes depicted. 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, ‘Villages and Trees, ? 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-villages-and-trees--le-de-france-r1175246, accessed 19 April 2024.