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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > France and Folkestone Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hilly Terrain c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hilly Terrain’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Hilly Terrain c.1826
D24114
Turner Bequest CCLVI 4a
Pencil on white laid paper, 104 x 158 mm
Partial watermark of a crown and laurels
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a loose study of hilly terrain. There is no distinguishing landmark to identify this scene although Tate curator Ian Warrell has located some of the sketches in this volume to the region around Dover, and also Calais and Beauvais.1

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.156.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Hilly Terrain c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hilly-terrain-r1185407, accessed 22 November 2024.