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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road through a Wood 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Road through a Wood’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Road through a Wood 1798
D01628
Turner Bequest XL 96
Pencil and watercolour, 95 x 135 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 95, 96’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is lower half of a double-page vertical composition, worked up in watercolour, which was removed for exhibition and has remained separate from the sketchbook. The other half is Tate D01627 (Turner Bequest XL 95), under which the subject is discussed.
The verso is D41452.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Road through a Wood 1798 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 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-road-through-a-wood-r1173866, accessed 20 May 2024.