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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Sandycombe Lodge c.1808-12 > Windmill and Lock Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Man with a Horse and Cart among Trees, Perhaps near the River Brent c.1808-11

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Man with a Horse and Cart among Trees, Perhaps near the River Brent’ c.1808-11
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
A Man with a Horse and Cart among Trees, Perhaps near the River Brent circa 1808–11
D08001
Turner Bequest CXIV 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ bottom right (smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CXIV – 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out in the Introduction, there are various landscape studies in this sketchbook, occupying several pages from folios 28 recto to 38 recto (D07999–D08010), and from folios 70 recto to 73 recto (D08051–D08056). The last of the earlier sketches show the River Brent, north-west of London, which merges with the Grand Union Canal at Hanwell, traditionally the main subject of the second grouping. This rapid sketch, leaving the man’s activity beside the horse and cart unclear, was perhaps made in the neighbourhood.
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Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Man with a Horse and Cart among Trees, Perhaps near the River Brent c.1808–11 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-man-with-a-horse-and-cart-among-trees-perhaps-near-the-r1134777, accessed 20 February 2025.