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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A View from a Height towards the Sea, with a Winding River, and a Building in the Right Foreground ?1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A View from a Height towards the Sea, with a Winding River, and a Building in the Right Foreground’ ?1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
A View from a Height towards the Sea, with a Winding River, and a Building in the Right Foreground ?1798
D01725
Turner Bequest XLII 50
Pencil and gouache on buff laid paper, 125 x 174 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 50’ top left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, the subject remains unidentified; see the entry for folio 26 recto opposite (D01726; Turner Bequest XLII 51).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A View from a Height towards the Sea, with a Winding River, and a Building in the Right Foreground ?1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-view-from-a-height-towards-the-sea-with-a-winding-river-r1173921, accessed 18 June 2025.