Joseph Mallord William Turner

River, with Distant Hills

1819

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In Tate Britain

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rome and Florence Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 113 × 189 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D16629
Turner Bequest CXCI 85 a

Catalogue entry

The details of this landscape sketch are too rough to be conclusively identified although they appear to depict distant hills or mountains with the winding course of a river leading towards the centre of the composition.

Nicola Moorby
February 2011

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