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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Hills ?near Calais 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Hills ?near Calais’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Distant Hills ?near Calais 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 11 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘?Br W[...]’ top towards right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has recorded the profiles of distant hills or coastline; a small vessel navigated by a boatman can be seen at top left. The location may be Calais where the artist started his tour on 11 August 1824.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Hills ?near Calais 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-hills-near-calais-r1174361, accessed 21 November 2024.