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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town in a Mountain Valley 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town in a Mountain Valley’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
A Town in a Mountain Valley 1836
D29256
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘24’ bottom right, descending vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 24’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of a town in a mountain valley is possibly related to the panorama at Chambéry on the opposite page of the sketchbook (D29255; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 24a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Town in a Mountain Valley 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-town-in-a-mountain-valley-r1144808, accessed 13 December 2025.