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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner View from a High Cliff over a Broad Plain 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
View from a High Cliff over a Broad Plain 1801
D05104
Turner Bequest LXXXII 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 161 x 256 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘24’ bottom right, descending vertically
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘27’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 27’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. It is the first of a sequence of sketches apparently recording Turner’s journey south through the Lakeland hills from Penrith to Kendal; see also the rectos of folio 28–33 (D05105–D05110). This dramatic subject may be the summit of the steep escarpment that drops away to the west towards the Cumbrian mountains round Keswick.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View from a High Cliff over a Broad Plain 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-from-a-high-cliff-over-a-broad-plain-r1178673, accessed 28 March 2024.