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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View over a Valley towards Mountains, with a Rainbow 1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View over a Valley towards Mountains, with a Rainbow’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Verso:
View over a Valley towards Mountains, with a Rainbow 1799
D02107
Turner Bequest XLVI 74a
Pencil, ink and wash with scraping-out on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view has not been identified; Finberg called it ‘Snowdon range’.1 It may show Mynnydd Mawr and Craig Cwm Bychan, with Y Garn beyond, seen from the north. Drawings in similar media are on folios 76 verso and 77 verso (D02110, D02112).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.117.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View over a Valley towards Mountains, with a Rainbow 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-view-over-a-valley-towards-mountains-with-a-rainbow-r1179966, accessed 20 September 2024.