Joseph Mallord William Turner

Town, with Distant Hills

1819

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Naples, Paestum and Rome Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 113 x 189 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D15948
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 20

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The subject of this sketch is currently unidentified but it appears to depict the gateway of a town. On the far left-hand side of the page is a small part of the composition from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 20 verso (D15947; Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 19c).

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

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