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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner River Bank with Hills, ?Île de France c.1826

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Bank with Hills, ?Île de France’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
River Bank with Hills, ?Île de France c.1826
D20529
Turner Bequest CCXXIV 216
Pencil on blue paper, 282 x 192 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘216’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘235 | o’ top left, inverted
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, top centre
Stamped in black ‘CCXXIV – 216’ top right, ascending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The date and occasion of this pencil study of a river bank with hills in the distance are not known. However, the verso of the sheet bears another sketch depicting the River Seine at Saint-Cloud, which Turner specialist Ian Warrell has suggested records an otherwise undocumented expedition from nearby Paris during the 1826 tour; see entry for Tate D20530 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 217).1 See the Introduction to this section for a list of comparable studies of this site.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.28.
Technical Notes:
The sheet bears a horizontal crease across the middle where it has been folded in two. The sketch is above the line of the crease.
Verso:
See entry for Tate D20530 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 217).

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘River Bank with Hills, ?Île de France c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-river-bank-with-hills-le-de-france-r1185493, accessed 24 April 2024.