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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Genoa and Florence Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains’ 1828
Folio 35 Verso:
View of the ?Apuan Alps 1828
D21481
Turner Bequest CCXXXIII 35a
Pencil on white lined wove paper, 96 x 144 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here, with the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner has traced the craggy profile of a mountain range. His precise location is difficult to pinpoint, although the geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot has proposed the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany, which Turner sketched as he travelled along the Ligurian coast from La Spezia and Massa towards Pisa and Livorno.1

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

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Roland Courtot, ‘10. Vers Rome: “carnet de Gènes et Florence” (TB CCXXXIII)’, Carnets de voyage de Turner, accessed 2 May 2024, https://carnetswt.hypotheses.org/2291.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘View of the ?Apuan Alps 1828’, catalogue entry, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/view-of-the-apuan-alps-r1210021, accessed 13 May 2025.