J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hills and a Building 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hills and a Building’ 1831
Hills and a Building 1831
D34847
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 360v
Pencil on off-white laid paper 144 x 199 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The faint sketches drawn across the right half of this page depict a building and hills. However, they cannot be identified with so little architectural or topographical information other than to point out that the sketch on the reverse of this page shows a view of hills with the Dornoch Firth (twenty-five miles north of Inverness) in the background, making a view nearby a likely possibility.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Hills and a Building 1831’, catalogue entry, May 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/hills-and-a-building-r1135609, accessed 31 July 2026.