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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prospect of Hills, Probably near Nollendorf 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prospect of Hills, Probably near Nollendorf’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Prospect of Hills, Probably near Nollendorf 1835
D30370
Turner Bequest CCCI 39
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘39’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 39’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This loosely rendered sketch probably depicts the hills around Nollendorf, northern Bohemia, where the Battle of Kulm (1813) was fought during the Napoleonic Wars (see Tate D30367–D30369, D30370; Turner Bequest CCCI 37a–38a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prospect of Hills, Probably near Nollendorf 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-prospect-of-hills-probably-near-nollendorf-r1186754, accessed 22 June 2025.