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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Waterfall among Rocks 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Waterfall among Rocks’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Waterfall among Rocks 1794
D00338
Turner Bequest XXI K
Pencil on white wove paper, 276 x 126 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXI K’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A study of gabled buildings in the lower left portion of the sheet has been erased. The waterfall is most likely a North Welsh subject and so to be placed with the drawings of the 1794 tour; but as Finberg noticed, both this sheet and Tate D00337 (Turner Bequest XXI J), could possibly have been drawn in South Wales in 1795;1 see the Smaller South Wales and South Wales sketchbooks (Tate; Turner Bequest XXV, XXVI).
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Finberg 1909, I, p.33.
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Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Waterfall among Rocks 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-waterfall-among-rocks-r1141067, accessed 22 November 2024.