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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Broad Plain with a Town and Mountains in the Distance 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Broad Plain with a Town and Mountains in the Distance’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
A Broad Plain with a Town and Mountains in the Distance 1801
D05127
Turner Bequest LXXXII 50
Pencil on white wove paper, 161 x 256 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 50’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally; its subject may be a panoramic view of Wrexham and the Clwyd Hills.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Broad Plain with a Town and Mountains in the 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-a-broad-plain-with-a-town-and-mountains-in-the-distance-r1178696, accessed 27 September 2024.