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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Hills (or Cliffs) along the Oder 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Hills (or Cliffs) along the Oder’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto
Two Sketches of Hills (or Cliffs) along the Oder 1835
D31102
Turner Bequest CCCVII 42
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Leu[...]nberg’ centre right; ‘[?Lieubenitz] Das Hall’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘42’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are sketches of cliffs on the River Older near Stettin (now Szczecin in modern day Poland). Turner’s inscriptions ‘Leu[...]nberg’ and ‘[?Lieubenitz] Das Hall’ may refer to the village of Lubczyna, which was known as Lübzin.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of Hills (or Cliffs) along the Oder 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-hills-or-cliffs-along-the-oder-r1186977, accessed 05 January 2025.