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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountainous Landscape 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountainous Landscape’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Mountainous Landscape 1820
D16747
Turner Bequest CXCII 59 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 128 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains swift, rather rough sketches of mountainous landscape. The location is currently unidentified although there appears to be a tall tower visible near the left-hand foreground.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘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-mountainous-landscape-r1142647, accessed 20 September 2024.