Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lake, with Mountains

1831

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 94 × 74 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D25602
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 40 a

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook turned to the left at the top of the page is a sketch of distant hills with trees in the foreground. Beneath this is another sketch of the outline of distant hills, perhaps drawn with the book held in the opposite direction.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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