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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks under a Wooded River Bank 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks under a Wooded River Bank’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Rocks under a Wooded River Bank 1801
D03431
Turner Bequest LVIII 52
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 270 x 380 mm
Watermark ‘1797 | J Whatman’
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 52’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg thought1 this the study on which the drawing known as A Lonely Dell, Wharfedale was based (Leeds Art Gallery).2 The two designs are very similar, though there is no exact correspondence. The subject may equally be compared with the studies that Turner made on the River Garry at Blair Atholl in his 1801 Scotch Lakes sketchbook (Tate D03141–D03148; Turner Bequest LVI 116a–120).
1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.158.
2
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.362 no.542, reproduced.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocks under a Wooded River Bank 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-rocks-under-a-wooded-river-bank-r1179831, accessed 19 April 2024.