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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses and Trees on a Bank Overlooking the Solway Firth 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses and Trees on a Bank Overlooking the Solway Firth’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 185 Verso:
Houses and Trees on a Bank Overlooking the Solway Firth 1801
D03273
Turner Bequest LVI 183a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 186 recto opposite (D03274; Turner Bequest LVI 184). Finberg identified the view as Gretna Green,1 presumably on the basis of the inscription on folio 187 recto (D03276; Turner Bequest LVI 185); this conjecture is likely to be correct.
Other drawings at Gretna Green are on folios 180 verso–181 recto, 183 verso–184 recto and 186 verso–187 recto (D03263–D03264, D03269–D03270, D03275–D03276; Turner Bequest LVI 178a–179, 181a–182, 184a–185).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.150.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Houses and Trees on a Bank Overlooking the Solway Firth 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-houses-and-trees-on-a-bank-overlooking-the-solway-firth-r1179469, accessed 30 June 2024.