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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Mountains, with Clouds in Front of the Sun; Study of a Tree 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Mountains, with Clouds in Front of the Sun; Study of a Tree’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
Distant Mountains, with Clouds in Front of the Sun; Study of a Tree 1799
D02065
Turner Bequest XLVI 47a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In addition to this quick sketch of a broad landscape with mountains and clouds, made with the page turned horizontally, there is a continuation from the tree study on folio 48 recto (D02066), inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant Mountains, with Clouds in Front of the Sun; Study of a Tree 1799 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-distant-mountains-with-clouds-in-front-of-the-sun-study-of-a-r1179924, accessed 19 April 2024.