Joseph Mallord William Turner

With the page turned horizontally, the annotated view down a mountain valley towards a roughly indicated tower is a typical ‘carriage sketch’. The confusion of the central passage is apparently a result of Turner’s hastily using the page the other way up for a view of mountains descending to a broad valley.

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.