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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View across the River Thames, with Wooded Hill Beyond: ?Cliveden Woods 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View across the River Thames, with Wooded Hill Beyond: ?Cliveden Woods’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
View across the River Thames, with Wooded Hill Beyond: ?Cliveden Woods 1805
D05908
Turner Bequest XCV 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 259 x 367 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCV 4’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This seems to be a right-hand page from the sketchbook. Hill places this slight sketch in his list of unidentified subjects from this sketchbook, noting that it lacks ‘landmarks, apart from hills’ and citing Finberg’s suggestion. Turner did draw Cliveden in the sketchbook (D05936; Turner Bequest XCV 32) but this location cannot be confirmed in the present instance.
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David Blayney Brown
January 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘View across the River Thames, with Wooded Hill Beyond: ?Cliveden Woods 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, 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-view-across-the-river-thames-with-wooded-hill-beyond-r1129939, accessed 25 November 2024.