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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of the Bavarian Alps, One with Munich in the Foreground 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of the Bavarian Alps, One with Munich in the Foreground’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Recto:
Sketches of the Bavarian Alps, One with Munich in the Foreground 1833
D29960
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 74
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 165 x 110 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘74’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 74’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This series of sketches shows the Bavarian Alps, with Munich visible in the view second from rear.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of the Bavarian Alps, One with Munich in the Foreground 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-sketches-of-the-bavarian-alps-one-with-munich-in-the-r1203220, accessed 27 June 2025.