'A Plain (or River) with Mountains Beyond', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Plain (or River) with Mountains Beyond

From Derbyshire Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CVI

Date 1808

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 108 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D07135

Turner Bequest CVI 3

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 3 Recto:

A Plain (or River) with Mountains Beyond 1808

D07135
Turner Bequest CVI 3

Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed ?by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘303’ bottom right and ‘3’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CVI 3’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This sketch is a very slight outline and the location of the valley and distant mountains of fells is unidentified. There seems to be the outline of roofs, middle distance.

David Blayney Brown
July 2010

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Derbyshire Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest