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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Return from Italy Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?View Amidst Mountains 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?View Amidst Mountains’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
?View Amidst Mountains 1820
D16725
Turner Bequest CXCII 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 128 mm

Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘43’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CXCII 43’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very slight sketch is too rough to be conclusively identified although it appears to depict a view amid mountains, possibly with a waterfall.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?View Amidst Mountains 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-view-amidst-mountains-r1142625, accessed 27 April 2024.