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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gretna Green Seen beyond Trees and a Field, with the Solway Firth in the Left Distance 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gretna Green Seen beyond Trees and a Field, with the Solway Firth in the Left Distance’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 187 Recto:
Gretna Green Seen beyond Trees and a Field, with the Solway Firth in the Left Distance 1801
D03276
Turner Bequest LVI 185
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Gretna Green’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘185’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 185’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 186 verso opposite (D03275; Turner Bequest LVI 184a).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Gretna Green Seen beyond Trees and a Field, with the Solway Firth in the Left Distance 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-gretna-green-seen-beyond-trees-and-a-field-with-the-solway-r1179472, accessed 30 June 2024.