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 Crag and Village 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Crag and Village’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Crag and Village 1802
D04549
Turner Bequest LXXIV 56
Pencil, black chalk and white gouache on greyish-buff laid paper, 286 x 216 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 56’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The title ‘Crag and Village’ was first given to this drawing by John Ruskin and no more accurate identification has yet emerged.
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Crag and 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-crag-and-village-r1146414, accessed 21 September 2024.