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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings on a Hill Seen beyond a Valley with Trees c.1800-1

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings on a Hill Seen beyond a Valley with Trees’ c.1800-1
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
Buildings on a Hill Seen beyond a Valley with Trees c.1800–1
D03654
Turner Bequest LXI 2
Pencil on coarse off-white wove paper, 131 x 206 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXI – 2’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this outline note is apparently copied from part of a landscape composition by Gaspard Dughet (1615–1675); compare the attributed Classical Landscape in Bolton Museum and Art Gallery and the View of Tivoli with Rome in the Distance in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. See also folios 1 recto and 3 recto (D03653, D03655).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Buildings on a Hill Seen beyond a Valley with Trees c.1800–1 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-buildings-on-a-hill-seen-beyond-a-valley-with-trees-r1178036, accessed 17 July 2024.