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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Town, with Tower on Hill 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Town, with Tower on Hill’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Distant Town, with Tower on Hill 1839
D28633
Turner Bequest CCXCI 49 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘v d m[eulen]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows the ruin of a tower atop a hill overlooking a town in the distance to the left. It is likely, given the appearance of the spires and domed building shown here, that Turner recorded the same landmarks but from a different perspective on Tate D28630; Turner Bequest CCXCI 48.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Town, with Tower on Hill 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-town-with-tower-on-hill-r1150917, accessed 26 April 2024.