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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountain Scenery 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountain Scenery’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 96 Recto:
Mountain Scenery 1833
D29997
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 96
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ top left to centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘96’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 96’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a rough view of mountains, possibly in the Bavarian-Austrian Alps. Illegible inscriptions are at top left to centre.
Verso:
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Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mountain Scenery 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-r1203256, accessed 02 September 2025.