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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Mountain Valley 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Mountain Valley’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
A Mountain Valley 1836
D29248
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Elu [?]’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘20’ top right and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very hasty sketch of a mountain valley is inscribed at the right ‘St Elu[?]’, the meaning of which is still unclear.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Mountain Valley 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-mountain-valley-r1144800, accessed 23 April 2024.