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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner House, with Distant Mountains ?1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘House, with Distant Mountains’ ?1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
House, with Distant Mountains ?1809
D10306
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 64a
Pencil touched with watercolour on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram lower right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. As was suggested in the 1975 Bicentenary exhibition catalogue, the scenery here looks like Lakeland, which would indicate a date of 1809 when Turner seems to have taken the sketchbook to Cumbria; see Introduction and notes to folios 71 verso, 72 verso and 73 verso (D10316, D10314, D10315; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 72, 70, 71).
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David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘House, with Distant Mountains ?1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-house-with-distant-mountains-r1131355, accessed 22 September 2024.