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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Church and Town in Mountains 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church and Town in Mountains’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Church and Town in Mountains 1833
D31465
Turner Bequest CCCXI 25a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a study of a town and church surrounded by mountains, probably in the Tyrol or South Tyrol. The same church is depicted on Tate D31474, D31567; Turner Bequest CCCXI 30, 77.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Church and Town in Mountains 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-church-and-town-in-mountains-r1203479, accessed 16 June 2024.