Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hills and a Distant Town

1835

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 190 × 118 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D30668
Turner Bequest CCCIV 20

Catalogue entry

These cursory drawings showing mountains and a distant town are rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down and are continued onto the folio opposite (Tate D30669; Turner Bequest CCCIV 20a). Turner has inscribed a largely illegible note below one of the views which reads ‘[...]berg’ (‘berg’ meaning mountain in German).
Recto:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

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