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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Flock of Sheep near a Mountain Village 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Flock of Sheep near a Mountain Village’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Flock of Sheep near a Mountain Village 1802
D04540
Turner Bequest LXXIV 47
Pencil, black chalk and white gouache on greyish-buff laid paper, 219 x 283 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV F’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this as one of a further five drawings associated with this sketchbook which ‘had also been mounted, but have not been exhibited. Their titles, if they had any, have been cut off.’ The village is unidentified.
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David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Flock of Sheep near a Mountain Village 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-flock-of-sheep-near-a-mountain-village-r1146405, accessed 18 April 2024.