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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Castle and Church in a Village beneath High Hills 1798-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Castle and Church in a Village beneath High Hills’ 1798-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
A Castle and Church in a Village beneath High Hills 1798–9
D01774
Turner Bequest XLII 99
Pencil and gouache on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘99’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 99’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 49 verso opposite (D01773; Turner Bequest XLI 98), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Castle and Church in a Village beneath High Hills 1798–9 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-a-castle-and-church-in-a-village-beneath-high-hills-r1173970, accessed 23 April 2024.