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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River Winding through a Valley, with Distant Mountains 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A River Winding through a Valley, with Distant Mountains’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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A River Winding through a Valley, with Distant Mountains 1808
D07132
Turner Bequest CVI 1
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed ?by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘1’ bottom right and ‘303’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CVI 1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The title is Finberg’s and seems fair enough, in so far as the sketch, always slight and now very rubbed, can be deciphered at all.
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David Blayney Brown
July 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A River Winding through a Valley, with Distant Mountains 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-a-river-winding-through-a-valley-with-distant-mountains-r1129558, accessed 22 November 2024.