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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Towers on Mountains 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Towers on Mountains’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Towers on Mountains 1836
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Turner Bequest CCXCIV 18a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘B. Arnos[so]’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘V... ...’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (top) A fort on a hill in a mountain valley, with a detail of a building above right inscribed ‘V... ...’
ii. (bottom) Buildings above a steep-sided valley.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Towers on Mountains 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-towers-on-mountains-r1144797, accessed 20 April 2024.