Joseph Mallord William Turner

Landscape

1831

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 74 × 94 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D25566
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 22 a

Catalogue entry

The sketchbook was probably inverted for this very vague landscape sketch which seems to show an outline of hills continuing on folio 23 (D25567). Turner seems to have been using this part of the sketchbook for views in the Lake District.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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