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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River Scene with Trees; Towers; Hills 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Scene with Trees; Towers; Hills’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
River Scene with Trees; Towers; Hills 1835
D30634
Turner Bequest CCCIV 2
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘zo’
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough and swiftly rendered sketches appear to show a river scene, possibly on the Waal, with trees and boat masts (marked out with single vertical lines) and the profiles of a tower and hills.
Recto:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River Scene with Trees; Towers; Hills 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-river-scene-with-trees-towers-hills-r1187017, accessed 22 November 2024.