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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town among Mountains 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town among Mountains’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Town among Mountains 1802
D04566
Turner Bequest LXXIV 73
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper paper, 217 x 284 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 73’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this as one of 22 leaves from this sketchbook found ‘in a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “M. 16. Leaves of S. 229. Laid down.” They have been mounted on cartridge by Mr. Ruskin.’ Evidently, Ruskin isolated these drawings because they were pencil outlines, without the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook. The title given by Finberg is retained pending closer identification of the subject.
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Town among Mountains 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-town-among-mountains-r1146431, accessed 19 April 2024.