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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Stirling and Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ruin on a Hill 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ruin on a Hill’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
Ruin on a Hill 1834
D26386
Turner Bequest CCLXIX 67
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ?‘mid mry’ bottom
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘67’ top right and ‘340’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIX 67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 66 verso (D26385) is a sketch of a path running up to a building (perhaps a ruin) on a hill with a river to the right on the present page. Turner has added the note ‘mid mary’ which has not helped to identify this view. The page belongs to a sequence of similar looking landscape views across folios 65 verso–68 verso (D26383–D26389).

Thomas Ardill
February 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ruin on a Hill 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-ruin-on-a-hill-r1136316, accessed 26 April 2024.