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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches in the Mountains 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches in the Mountains’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Two Sketches in the Mountains 1836
D29247
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘B. A[rnosso]’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Road’, ‘Tournin [?]’, ‘Lake N...[?]’'
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (top) A very hasty sketch of mountains with a building to the right, inscribed, lower right, ‘Road’ and ‘Tournin’.
ii. (below) A panorama of hills around ‘Lake N...[?]’.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches in the 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-two-sketches-in-the-mountains-r1144799, accessed 20 April 2024.