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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Mountain Peaks; ?Study of a Building 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Mountain Peaks; ?Study of a Building’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
Study of Mountain Peaks; ?Study of a Building 1798
D01447
Turner Bequest XXXIX 85v
Pencil on rough white laid printing paper washed with a pink ground, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The unidentified mountains were drawn with the page turned horizontally. The building studied on this page is perhaps the house which appears on folio 91 recto opposite (D01448; Turner Bequest XXXIX 86).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of Mountain Peaks; ?Study of a Building 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-mountain-peaks-study-of-a-building-r1173682, accessed 27 April 2024.