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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View from a Hillside across Valleys towards a Range of Mountains 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View from a Hillside across Valleys towards a Range of Mountains’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
View from a Hillside across Valleys towards a Range of Mountains 1798
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Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg called this sketch, made with the page turned horizontally, a ‘Distant view of Snowdon range’,1 which may be correct, but the indication of mountains is faint and difficult to decipher.
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Finberg 1909, I, p.90.
Technical notes:
There is what may be a modern pencil mark at the bottom left.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View from a Hillside across Valleys towards a Range of Mountains 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-view-from-a-hillside-across-valleys-towards-a-range-of-r1173609, accessed 24 November 2024.