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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Waterside Terrain and Buildings on a Hillside, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Waterside Terrain and Buildings on a Hillside, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Waterside Terrain and Buildings on a Hillside, Northern France 1832
D24240
Turner Bequest CCLVII 38
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘38’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 38’ bottom left, descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with two landscape views punctuated by buildings. The top sketch depicts a river or lake lined on one side by hills and buildings while the lower sketch records a substantial settlement before high ground. Turner travelled extensively around the satellite settlements of Paris in the Île-de-France with the sketchbook and also up the Marne River to the east of the city so these drawings were probably made in one of those regions.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Waterside Terrain and Buildings on a Hillside, Northern 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-waterside-terrain-and-buildings-on-a-hillside-northern-r1175268, accessed 20 September 2024.