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 62 Recto:
A Mountainous Landscape, with the Sun behind Clouds 1798
D01565
Turner Bequest XL 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘60’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 60’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this drawing continues on folio 61 verso opposite (D01564; Turner Bequest XL 59a), under which the subject is discussed.

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-r1173804, accessed 04 April 2026.