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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Scotch Lakes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses and Trees on a Bank Overlooking the Solway Firth 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses and Trees on a Bank Overlooking the Solway Firth’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 186 Recto:
Houses and Trees on a Bank Overlooking the Solway Firth 1801
D03274
Turner Bequest LVI 184
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘184’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 184’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 185 verso opposite (D03273; Turner Bequest LVI 183a).
There is an outline study of buildings and trees at the top right, drawn with the page turned horizontally; it is possibly related to the left-hand portion of the view on folios 184 verso–185 recto (D03271–D03272; Turner Bequest LVI 182a–183), and tends to confirm that that drawing, labelled ‘Dumbarton’, does indeed belong with the Dumbarton views at the beginning of the book (see folios 25 verso–35 verso; D02961–D02980), since it appears to bear no relation to the subject of the present opening.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Houses and Trees on a Bank Overlooking the Solway Firth 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-houses-and-trees-on-a-bank-overlooking-the-solway-firth-r1179470, accessed 24 April 2024.