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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Mountains; Two Studies of Caps 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Mountains; Two Studies of Caps’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Distant Mountains; Two Studies of Caps 1839
D28433
Turner Bequest CCXC 42
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wiellin’ top left towards centre; ‘[?Tessel]’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘42’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made rough jottings of a mountain landscape in the Moselle Valley and two caps. The page is inscribed twice with what appears to read ‘Wiellin’ and ‘Tessel’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Mountains; Two Studies of Caps 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-distant-mountains-two-studies-of-caps-r1150716, accessed 25 April 2024.