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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > France and Folkestone Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hilly Terrain; Shipping c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hilly Terrain; Shipping’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Hilly Terrain; Shipping c.1826
D24115
Turner Bequest CCLVI 5
Pencil on white laid paper, 158 x 104 mm
Inscribed by Turner on pencil ‘R’’ top centre
Partial watermark ‘1822’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘5’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black CCLVI – 5’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, Turner filled the upper half of this page with a loose study of hilly terrain. The bottom half of the page features shipping. There is no distinguishing landmark to identify these scenes although some of the sketches in this volume have been located to to the regions around Dover and Folkestone, and also Calais and Beauvais.1

John Chu
July 2015

1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.777; Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.156.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Hilly Terrain; Shipping c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hilly-terrain-shipping-r1185408, accessed 24 April 2024.