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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountain Scenery and Buildings 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountain Scenery and Buildings’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
Mountain Scenery and Buildings 1833
D31545
Turner Bequest CCCXI 66
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘66’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch shows mountains, possibly in the Tyrol or Alto Adige, with a town and bridge at bottom right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mountain Scenery and Buildings 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-mountain-scenery-and-buildings-r1203559, accessed 05 April 2026.