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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Mountain Village 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Mountain Village’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Mountain Village 1802
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Turner Bequest LXXIV 93
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 214 x 282 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘93’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 93’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawings in this group are pencil outlines, lacking the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook. The location is unidentified.
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David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘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-mountain-village-r1146451, accessed 18 April 2024.