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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dean's Village, from Dean's Path 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dean's Village, from Dean's Path’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Dean’s Village, from Dean’s Path 1801
D02845
Turner Bequest LV 24a
Pencil on white wove paper, 127 x 195 mm
Partial watermark ‘94 | tman’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the pages turned horizontally, the subject is continued on folio 25 recto opposite (D02846). Its incisive qualities are largely owing to Turner’s having taken a little longer than his usual rapid jotting to ensure that the buildings are firmly set into the landscape, with sharp points of emphasis in vigorously applied black lead; as discussed in the sketchbook’s Introduction, Gerald Wilkinson’s praise for this study seems a little overstated, and while it may be seen as anticipating the drawing technique of Richard Parkes Bonington (1802– 1828), but hardly that of Cézanne or Paul Klee.1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Wilkinson 1972, p.122.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Dean’s Village, from Dean’s Path 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-deans-village-from-deans-path-r1179035, accessed 30 June 2024.