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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > River and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sun Rise over a Hill: ?Near Rochester c.1805-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sun Rise over a Hill: ?Near Rochester’ c.1805-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Sun Rise over a Hill: ?Near Rochester circa 1805–9
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Turner Bequest XCIX 25a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sun rise on R Hill’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The ‘R’ in Turner’s inscription, read by Finberg as ‘the’, presumably indicates a red sunrise.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Sun Rise over a Hill: ?Near Rochester c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, 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-sun-rise-over-a-hill-near-rochester-r1130595, accessed 25 April 2024.