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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Broad Alpine Mountain Valley, with Distant Buildings 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Broad Alpine Mountain Valley, with Distant Buildings’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
A Broad Alpine Mountain Valley, with Distant Buildings 1833
D31612
Turner Bequest CCCXII 8a
Pencil on white laid paper, 109 x 203 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. There is a suggestion of a village in the middle distance below the peaks. Over half of the pages in this book comprise relatively slight sketches from Turner’s homeward route north through the valleys of the Alps via Trento, Bolzano (Bozen) and Innsbruck. As set out in the Introduction, although his overall itinerary is clear from many identified subjects, they were are not drawn in a single sequence, making the rugged scenes between them difficult to place.

Matthew Imms
May 2019

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Broad Alpine Mountain Valley, with Distant Buildings 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-broad-alpine-mountain-valley-with-distant-buildings-r1203810, accessed 25 November 2024.