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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boat on a River; and View of Mountains 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boat on a River; and View of Mountains’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Boat on a River; and View of Mountains 1820
D16697
Turner Bequest CXCII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 128 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CXCII 29’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two distinct landscape views. The larger study depicts a boat on a river with a castle or other building beyond. The smaller sketch meanwhile has been executed with the sketchbook held vertically and shows a view of mountains. Neither location has been identified.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Boat on a River; and View of Mountains 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-boat-on-a-river-and-view-of-mountains-r1142597, accessed 05 April 2026.