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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains, Perhaps Around St Johns-In-the-Vale 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains, Perhaps Around St Johns-In-the-Vale’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Mountains, Perhaps Around St Johns-In-the-Vale 1831
D25558
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 18a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook inverted are sketches of distant mountains. The drawing is too rough and there is too little detail to identify the location, but the Lake District is likely considering the shape and height of the peaks. A sketch on folio 19 (D25559) where the sketches continue slightly, is suggestive of St Johns-in-the-Vale, a valley that lies between high mountain ridges to the south-east of Keswick. It may be these ridges that are depicted on this page. See the sketches of St Johns-in-the-Vale in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border sketchbook for comparison (Tate D25819; Turner Bequest CCLXVI 30)

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Mountains, Perhaps Around St Johns-In-the-Vale 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-mountains-perhaps-around-st-johns-in-the-vale-r1133918, accessed 25 April 2024.