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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
Mountains 1831
D25551
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 14a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the right are two sketches made quickly, presumably from the window of a moving coach. The top sketch depicts the shoulder of a mountain (perhaps the same mountain depicted on folio 15; D25552), and the bottom sketch depicts a valley.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Mountains 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mountains-r1133910, accessed 25 November 2024.