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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses in a Rocky Landscape c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses in a Rocky Landscape’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Houses in a Rocky Landscape c.1824
D20435
Turner Bequest CCXXIV 134v
Chalk and pencil on blue wove paper, 145 x 193 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘134’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Houses in a rocky landscape, possibly beside a river or lake as in the recto, are shown in this brief chalk and pencil sketch that appears on the verso of D20434 (CCXXIV 134).
For the grouping and dating of these works, see the section Introduction.

Ben Pollitt
August 2019

How to cite

Ben Pollitt, ‘Houses in a Rocky Landscape c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-houses-in-a-rocky-landscape-r1202134, accessed 09 May 2024.