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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Cheshire, Derbyshire, North Wales ... > Tabley No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings among Trees, with Distant Mountains 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings among Trees, with Distant Mountains’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Buildings among Trees, with Distant Mountains 1808
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Turner Bequest CIII 20
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 226 x 295 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CIII 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is unidentified, but perhaps in North Wales and drawn during Turner’s excursion from Tabley (see Introduction to the sketchbook), or in Lancashire or Yorkshire visited afterwards.
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David Blayney Brown
May 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Buildings among Trees, with Distant Mountains 1808 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-buildings-among-trees-with-distant-mountains-r1134476, accessed 26 April 2024.