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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountain 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountain’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Mountain 1831
D25552
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘15’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV – 15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This hastily sketched outline of a distant mountain was probably made from the window of a moving coach. The shape is reminiscent of Skiddaw in the Lake District, sketched elsewhere in this book (folio 44 verso; D25610), though there is not enough topographical information in the sketch to be very certain.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Mountain 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-mountain-r1133911, accessed 18 May 2024.