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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Riverside Terrain, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Riverside Terrain, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
Riverside Terrain, Northern France 1832
D24247
Turner Bequest CCLVII 41a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘M[...]’ top centre, ‘C[...]’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with two hilly landscape views. The lower sketch depicts a bend in a river lined on one side by hills and buildings. Turner travelled extensively along the course of the Seine in the Île-de-France with this sketchbook and also up the River Marne 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, ‘Riverside Terrain, 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-riverside-terrain-northern-france-r1175275, accessed 19 April 2024.