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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1831 > Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Mountains 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Mountains’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
Distant Mountains 1831
D25526
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 2
Pencil on white wove paper, 94 x 74 mm
Inscribed on pencil by Turner ‘Hl’ centre right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV – 2’ running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the left are three outlines of distant hills or mountains. The top and middle sketches are clearly of the same view, and the bottom sketch may be a variation of it too. Turner’s inscription either reads ‘Hill’ or just the letters ‘H l’. After making these rough sketches Turner may have flipped forward three pages to make another sketch on folio 5 (D25532), as that sketch was made with the book in the same orientation.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Distant Mountains 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-distant-mountains-r1133885, accessed 25 April 2024.