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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ala; Mountainous River Valley 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ala; Mountainous River Valley’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Ala; Mountainous River Valley 1833
D31550
Turner Bequest CCCXI 68a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ala’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The upper view shows Ala in Trentino (inscribed), while the other sketches depict a mountainous river valley with castles (see Tate D31464; Turner Bequest CCCXI 25).

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ala; Mountainous River Valley 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ala-mountainous-river-valley-r1203564, accessed 12 August 2025.