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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Village by a River with Mountains Beyond, Perhaps near Pitlochry 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Village by a River with Mountains Beyond, Perhaps near Pitlochry’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Village by a River with Mountains Beyond, Perhaps near Pitlochry 1801
D03407
Turner Bequest LVIII 28
Pencil and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 340 x 480 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 28’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The tentative identification is based on the indications of new afforestation on the hillsides; see Introductions to this ‘Scottish Pencils’ section and the 1801 Scotch Lakes sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest LVI).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Village by a River with Mountains Beyond, Perhaps near Pitlochry 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-village-by-a-river-with-mountains-beyond-perhaps-near-r1179817, accessed 12 May 2024.