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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of the Malvern Hills 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of the Malvern Hills’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Distant View of the Malvern Hills 1798
D01713
Turner Bequest XLII 38
Pencil and gouache on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 38’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is continued on folio 20 recto opposite (D01714; Turner Bequest XLII 39). As the inscription on that page suggests, this is a view of the Malvern Hills, perhaps looking north along the ridge towards the Herefordshire Beacon and, farther off, the Worcester Beacon, from near Hollybush, on the road between Hereford and Tewkesbury which Turner may have taken on his return journey in 1798.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of the Malvern Hills 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-distant-view-of-the-malvern-hills-r1173909, accessed 26 April 2024.