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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River, with Distant Hills 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River, with Distant Hills’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
River, with Distant Hills 1819
D16629
Turner Bequest CXCI 85 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The details of this landscape sketch are too rough to be conclusively identified although they appear to depict distant hills or mountains with the winding course of a river leading towards the centre of the composition.

Nicola Moorby
February 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘River, with Distant Hills 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2011, 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-river-with-distant-hills-r1138522, accessed 05 April 2026.