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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with a Hills and River Running Through a Plain, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape with a Hills and River Running Through a Plain, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
Landscape with a Hills and River Running Through a Plain, Savoy 1819
D14095
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 64 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location of this landscape is currently unidentified although it is likely to depict a view in Savoy from the road to Lanslebourg. Turner appears to be standing at a high vantage point looking down through the hills towards a distant plain with a river running through it. There is a tower or church visible amidst the slopes to the left.
Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

‘Landscape with a Hills and River Running Through a Plain, Savoy 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, 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-landscape-with-a-hills-and-river-running-through-a-plain-r1142954, accessed 25 April 2024.