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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees on the Edge of a Lake, with Swans, and two Men Lying on the Grass, probably at Fonthill ?1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees on the Edge of a Lake, with Swans, and two Men Lying on the Grass, probably at Fonthill’ ?1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Trees on the Edge of a Lake, with Swans, and two Men Lying on the Grass, probably at Fonthill ?1799
D02191
Turner Bequest XLVII 14
Black chalk on white wove paper, 342 x 471 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 14’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The men taking their ease in this drawing, made with the page turned horizontally, and that on D02197 (Turner Bequest XLVII 20) are presumably workmen engaged on the building of William Beckford’s massive Gothic folly at Fonthill.
Technical notes:
The use of black chalk here is somewhat unexpected; it recurs in drawings on D02192 and D02194; Turner Bequest XLVII 15, 17). For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 7, see the Introduction.
Verso:
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Trees on the Edge of a Lake, with Swans, and two Men Lying on the Grass, probably at Fonthill ?1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-trees-on-the-edge-of-a-lake-with-swans-and-two-men-lying-on-r1174223, accessed 17 July 2024.