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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wooded Landscape, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wooded Landscape, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Recto:
Wooded Landscape, Northern France 1832
D24317
Turner Bequest CCLVII 77
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘77’ towards top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 77’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a landscape of distant hills seen from a wooded upland. Turner travelled extensively around the Île-de-France with this sketchbook and also up the Marne River to the east of Paris so these drawings were probably made in one of those regions.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Wooded Landscape, 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-wooded-landscape-northern-france-r1175345, accessed 18 September 2024.