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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > Dynevor Castle Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road over Hills 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Road over Hills’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
A Road over Hills 1798
D01615
Turner Bequest XL 88a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘5’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 88 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a very summary sketch, using a coarser point than the majority of rapid landscape studies in this book. The drawing is continued on folio 91 recto opposite (D01616; Turner Bequest XL 89).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Road over Hills 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-road-over-hills-r1173854, accessed 20 September 2024.