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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Hythe and Walmer Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hills 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hills’ 1845
Folio 9 Recto:
Hills 1845
D35350
Turner Bequest CCCLV 9
Pencil on blue wove paper, 70 x 186 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ top right inverted, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLV–9’ top right inverted, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has produced this drawing with the page turned horizontally. In this simple sketch he renders the undulations and furrows of the local topography in fluid line. A tower or fort-like structure is visible atop one of the hillsides. The diagonal trajectory of a jagged line can be seen meandering from the foot of the tower through to the bottom left of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hills 1845’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/hills-r1142181, accessed 28 August 2026.