Joseph Mallord William Turner

Mountains with a Distant Castle or Walled Town, ?between Trieste and Graz

1840

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Trieste, Graz and Danube Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 127 × 198 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D30103
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 53 a

Catalogue entry

Drawn with the page turned horizontally, the subject appears to be a large fortified complex or walled town in hilly surroundings.

As set out in this sketchbook’s Introduction, the general flow of Turner’s itinerary is in reverse of the Turner Bequest foliation, and this page falls within a sequence between folios 55 recto and 49 recto (D30094–D30106) likely (with reservations) to show his route north-east between Trieste to Graz (see respectively under folios 57 recto and 41 verso; D30109, D30079) through the rugged terrain of modern-day Slovenia and southern Austria. See under D30094 for further discussion.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

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