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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Mountains and Sky, with Figures on a Cliff in the Foreground 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Mountains and Sky, with Figures on a Cliff in the Foreground’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Study of Mountains and Sky, with Figures on a Cliff in the Foreground 1798
D01326
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 72
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, the foreground prepared with a buff-brown wash, 229 x 332 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 72’ bottom left, descending vertically
This view may well have been drawn at the top of Cader Idris, looking north-west towards the Lleyn Peninsular and the western edge of Snowdonia. Finberg conjectured that this sheet originally came immediately before folio 51 (D01288; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 36).1
1
Finberg 1909, I, pp.85, 87.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of Mountains and Sky, with Figures on a Cliff in the Foreground 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-mountains-and-sky-with-figures-on-a-cliff-in-the-r1173196, accessed 25 April 2024.