Joseph Mallord William Turner

?Italian Mountains

c.1828–43

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium
Chalk and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 144 × 193 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D33792
Turner Bequest CCCXLI 111

Catalogue entry

The subject is unidentified, but is probably Italian; see the Introduction to this section for further brief discussion and dating. The distinctive profile of the peaks on the skyline on the right here are seen closer in Tate D33783 and D33786 (Turner Bequest CCCXLI 102, 105). Turner’s inscriptions presumably indicates a place name but has yet to be fully deciphered.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by John Ruskin in pencil ‘233 | O’ bottom right.

Matthew Imms
February 2016

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