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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Mountainous Landscape; Including One with a Lake 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Mountainous Landscape; Including One with a Lake’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Two Sketches of Mountainous Landscape; Including One with a Lake 1820
D16642
Turner Bequest CXCII 1 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 128 x 98 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?G...] the A’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two landscape sketches of mountainous landscape. The locations are currently unidentified although they perhaps relate to Turner’s passage through the Alps via the Mont Cenis pass, see folio 2 verso (D16643). The upper vista depicts a lake scene and the lower prospect includes a church or other building visible on the right-hand side.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches of Mountainous Landscape; Including One with a Lake 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-mountainous-landscape-including-one-with-a-r1142541, accessed 25 April 2024.