
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 681 × 1009 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D04172
Turner Bequest LXX U
Display caption
While this view has never been identified, it has previously been associated with the Welsh subjects of 1799-1800. Its dark woodland foreground and airy sense of distance, however, perhaps relate it more readily to Turner's work for Beckford. The study seems particularly close to a drawing made at Fonthill (exhibited adjacently) and it may even be an intermediate colour sketch for the finished watercolour derived from this (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts). Both the Beckford commission and the Welsh tour inspired sublime qualities in Turner's work. This naturally engendered some degree of thematic and technical crossover in the two resulting groups of works, which were executed almost simultaneously.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road beside a River beneath Rocks, with Distant Buildings
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks and Trees in a Valley
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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River Valley with Wooded Hills and Mountains: ?The River Garry near Blair Atholl
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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River Winding through a Valley, with Distant Mountains
1808 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner A Rocky Valley among Hills
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin A Footbridge between Rocks, over a River in the Valley of Chamonix
c.1797 -
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks under a Wooded River Bank
1801 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded Valley, Probably near Chudleigh Rocks
1814 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner A River among Rocks with a House in Trees and Distant High Cliffs
1794 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin A Waterfall among Woods on a Mountain-side
c.1794–8 -
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1798 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner A Broad River Valley with Distant Hills
1801 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner A Valley with Trees in the left Foreground and Distant Mountains
1801 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Blair Atholl: A River with Rocks, Trees and a Distant Hill
1801