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 House below a Mountain Peak 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A House below a Mountain Peak’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A House below a Mountain Peak 1802
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Turner Bequest LXXIV 91
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 218 x 282 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘91’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 91’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this leaf as ‘part of a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “R. 277. Grenoble series. Inferior drawings.”’ The drawings in this group are pencil outlines, lacking the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook. The location of this building is unidentified.
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David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A House below a Mountain Peak 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-house-below-a-mountain-peak-r1146449, accessed 20 September 2024.