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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Landscape 1791

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Landscape’ 1791
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
A Landscape 1791
D40733
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 263 mm
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There is a slight pencil trial at top centre, with the continuation of a landscape subject from another page, along the right edge.
This page is not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue.1

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.9.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Landscape 1791 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-landscape-r1140124, accessed 21 November 2024.