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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mortham Tower 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Mortham Tower 1831
D25538
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 8
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘8’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV – 8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 7 verso (D25537), this may be a view of Mortham Tower and the River Greta from the south near Greta Bridge. The same view may appear in a sketch at the top of folio 9 (D25540) where a towered building appears next to a serpentine river.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Mortham Tower 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-mortham-tower-r1133897, accessed 28 March 2024.