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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Mountains 1831
D25585
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘32’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV 32’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The few broken lines across this page are continued from an outline of a distant mountain on folio 31 verso (D25584).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Mountains 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mountains-r1133945, accessed 04 April 2026.