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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Extensive View over Hills, with the Sea to the Right 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Extensive View over Hills, with the Sea to the Right’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso:
Extensive View over Hills, with the Sea to the Right 1798
D01597
Turner Bequest XL 79a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘14’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 79 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 82 recto opposite (D01598; Turner Bequest XL 80). Compare the very slight sketch of hill and a stretch of coast on folios 61 verso–62 recto (D01564–D01565; Turner Bequest XL 59a–60). It has not been possible to identify the view, though it should be noted that Turner’s viewpoint here is high on a hillside; we are perhaps looking down on Cardigan Bay from above Aberporth.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Extensive View over Hills, with the Sea to the Right 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-extensive-view-over-hills-with-the-sea-to-the-right-r1173836, accessed 25 April 2024.