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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > Dynevor Castle Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Hillside and Ridge 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Hillside and Ridge’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
A Hillside and Ridge 1798
D01468
Turner Bequest XL 4a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 135 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘89’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XL – 4 a’ top left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rapid sketch, made with the page turned horizontally, may record a particular place visited on the 1798 tour, or may be connected with one of the subject pictures Turner was contemplating in this book: the contorted tree in the right foreground has elements in common with the branches in which figures writhe in the 1793 Marford Mill sketchbook, for instance Tate D00313 (Turner Bequest XX 36a); and see the composition with mountain and bare trees on folio 8 verso (D01476) in this book. The slight note on folio 5 recto opposite (D01469) may be part of the same sequence of thought.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Hillside and Ridge 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-hillside-and-ridge-r1173704, accessed 21 November 2024.