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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Mountain Track 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Mountain Track 1802
D40064
Pencil and black chalk on greyish-buff laid paper, 284 x 211 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘16’ within circle, top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 34’ bottom right, running vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is on the verso of D04527, also stamped as Turner Bequest LXXIV 34, which has a drawing of the ‘Gate of the Chartreuse’. The present subject may also be in the Chartreuse or the Gorges du Guiers Mort.

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Mountain Track 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-mountain-track-r1146456, accessed 28 March 2024.