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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches Including: A Cart; A Group of People; Buildings 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches Including: A Cart; A Group of People; Buildings’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Sketches Including: A Cart; A Group of People; Buildings 1835
D31019
Turner Bequest CCCVI 68 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ bottom centre towards left; ‘water cart’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This leaf contains a small and roughly rendered sketch of a ‘water cart’ at top centre, and other jottings, produced with the book turned upside-down, including figures and the skyline of a city (possibly Dresden).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches Including: A Cart; A Group of People; Buildings 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-including-a-cart-a-group-of-people-buildings-r1186891, accessed 24 April 2024.