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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Church and Mountain Scenery 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church and Mountain Scenery’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Church and Mountain Scenery 1833
D31445
Turner Bequest CCCXI 15a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘1’ top centre, ‘2’, ‘2’, ‘3’ left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show a church and mountainous landscapes. The lowermosr view appears to feature the distant skyline of a town or city. The sketches are numbered ‘1’, ‘2’, and ‘3’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Church and Mountain Scenery 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2017, 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-church-and-mountain-scenery-r1203459, accessed 25 November 2024.