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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > North Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A High Mountain Seen beyond a Valley 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A High Mountain Seen beyond a Valley’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
A High Mountain Seen beyond a Valley 1798
D01453
Turner Bequest XXXIX 89
Black chalk and gouache on buff laid wrapping paper, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped lower centre with Turner Bequest monogram
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 89’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is unidentified.
Technical notes:
There are adventitious smears of blue colour from a sheet laid obliquely on this one.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A High Mountain Seen beyond a Valley 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-a-high-mountain-seen-beyond-a-valley-r1173633, accessed 26 April 2024.