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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Distant Landscape c.1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Distant Landscape’ c.1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
A Distant Landscape c.1795
D00488
Turner Bequest XXV 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 205 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘27’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXV 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is possibly the same subject as that on folio 28 recto (D00489); but this very slight sketch is hard to interpret.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Distant Landscape c.1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-a-distant-landscape-r1140807, accessed 21 November 2024.