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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > History Painting c.1799-1807 > Studies for Pictures Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees on a Sunlit Hillside with a River or Lake in the Foreground c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees on a Sunlit Hillside with a River or Lake in the Foreground’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 120 Recto:
Trees on a Sunlit Hillside with a River or Lake in the Foreground c.1799–1802
D04138
Turner Bequest LXIX 121
Coloured chalks on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘121’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-121’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a small group of landscape studies in coloured chalks; see also folios 109 recto and 110 recto (D04126, D04127; Turner Bequest LXIX 110, 111), and the copy after Claude Lorrain on folio 121 recto opposite (D04139; Turner Bequest LXIX 122).
Technical notes:
An offset from this page on folio 96 verso (D04112; Turner Bequest LXIX 97v) indicates that they were once bound consecutively.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Trees on a Sunlit Hillside with a River or Lake in the Foreground c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-trees-on-a-sunlit-hillside-with-a-river-or-lake-in-the-r1178018, accessed 20 September 2024.