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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Plain (or River) with Mountains Beyond 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Plain (or River) with Mountains Beyond’ 1808
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
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

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Plain (or River) with Mountains Beyond 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-a-plain-or-river-with-mountains-beyond-r1129561, accessed 26 April 2024.