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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of a Town and Mountains 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of a Town and Mountains’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Verso:
Two Sketches of a Town and Mountains 1819
D16021
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 56 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location represented within these two rough sketches is currently unidentified. They appear to depict a town with a domed church or castle with mountains in the distance.

Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches of a Town and Mountains 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2010, 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-two-sketches-of-a-town-and-mountains-r1137945, accessed 01 April 2026.