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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Mountainous Landscape 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Mountainous Landscape’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Two Sketches of Mountainous Landscape 1820
D16745
Turner Bequest CXCII 58 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 128 x 98 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘sun’, ‘vapour’ and ‘vay[...]’ within top sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two swift, rather rough sketches of mountainous landscape. The locations are unknown. Turner has added notes concerning the atmospheric effects of the upper scene including ‘sun’ and ‘vapour’.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches of Mountainous Landscape 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-mountainous-landscape-r1142645, accessed 19 September 2024.