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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of Hilly Landscape 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of Hilly Landscape’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso:
Four Sketches of Hilly Landscape 1819
D16623
Turner Bequest CXCI 81 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?F...]’ top right of lower sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The rough nature of these four sketches makes the subjects impossible to identify although they appear to depict hilly landscape, perhaps near Florence. It is likely that they were executed from a moving carriage.

Nicola Moorby
February 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Four Sketches of Hilly Landscape 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2011, 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-four-sketches-of-hilly-landscape-r1138516, accessed 24 April 2024.