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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Mountainous Landscape, with the Sun behind Clouds 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Mountainous Landscape, with the Sun behind Clouds’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
A Mountainous Landscape, with the Sun behind Clouds 1798
D01564
Turner Bequest XL 59a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘34’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 59 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 62 recto opposite (D01565; Turner Bequest XL 60). If the sea is indicated on the left of the view, as seems to be the case, this may show the coast near Aberaeron, where the road Turner followed from Newcastle Emlyn to Aberystwyth approaches the sea.
Technical notes:
A fragment of marbled paper is stuck to the page near the gutter.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Mountainous Landscape, with the Sun behind Clouds 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-mountainous-landscape-with-the-sun-behind-clouds-r1173803, accessed 04 April 2026.