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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Broad, Flat Landscape with a Distant Town 1797-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Broad, Flat Landscape with a Distant Town’ 1797-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Broad, Flat Landscape with a Distant Town 1797–8
D02370
Turner Bequest LI C
Pencil on white wove paper, 209 x 267 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘Li.C’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘LI – C’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject, with a distant church tower and windmills on the horizon and a large building in the middle distance, remains unidentified. It is one of a sequence of sixteen Yorkshire and other subjects included in the present subsection which were executed on uniform sheets of paper, as discussed and listed in the Introduction. For the dating of this drawing and contemporary views in the Oxford area, see under Tate D02358 (Turner Bequest L Q).
Technical notes:
The sheet has been folded vertically down the centre.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Broad, Flat Landscape with a Distant Town 1797–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-broad-flat-landscape-with-a-distant-town-r1150286, accessed 26 April 2024.