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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Garden, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Garden, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
?A Garden, Île-de-France 1832
D24291
Turner Bequest CCLVII 64
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘64’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 64’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top half of this page with drawings of indeterminate bridges and architectural structures in a landscape. The temple-like building on the right-hand side of the page and the steepness of the bridge depicted towards the top left-hand corner suggest ornamental garden structures. Turner sketched many palace gardens around the Île-de-France in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?A Garden, 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-a-garden-le-de-france-r1175319, accessed 23 April 2024.