Joseph Mallord William Turner

Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps

1840

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Rotterdam to Venice Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 149 × 89 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D32313
Turner Bequest CCCXX 27

Catalogue entry

There appear to be three mountain views here, one above the other with the bottom one inverted. The middle view seems to include a carriage, with what may be a distant castle on the right. The lower subject may relate to the larger view on folio 26 verso opposite (D32312).

A long sequence of sketches, mostly characterised as ‘Mountains’ by Finberg (with occasional identifications and transcriptions of the place names marked by the artist), lies between folios 7 recto and 76 recto (D32275–D32411).1 See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the likely overall route between Bregenz and Venice.2

Matthew Imms
September 2018

See Finberg 1909, II, pp.1030–2.

See also Cecilia Powell, Turner in Germany, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, pp.65, 81 note 9.

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