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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Rim of a Waterfall, with Woods and Distant Mountains 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Rim of a Waterfall, with Woods and Distant Mountains’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 138 Verso:
The Rim of a Waterfall, with Woods and Distant Mountains 1801
D03179
Turner Bequest LVI 136a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the pages turned horizontally, the subject is continued on folio 139 recto opposite (D03180; Turner Bequest LVI 137), and is probably the Falls of the Bran at the Hermitage, near Dunkeld, with which Turner had been occupied on the preceding three openings of this sketchbook, folios 135 verso–138 recto (D03173–D03178; Turner Bequest LVI 133a–134, 134a–135, 135a–136).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Rim of a Waterfall, with Woods and Distant Mountains 1801 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-the-rim-of-a-waterfall-with-woods-and-distant-mountains-r1179375, accessed 27 April 2024.