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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Distant View of a Midlands Town or Castle across a Valley 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Distant View of a Midlands Town or Castle across a Valley’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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A Distant View of a Midlands Town or Castle across a Valley 1830
D22001
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 15a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘nard | 20’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject currently remains unidentified, but is presumably in the Midlands. It shows a distant town or perhaps a castle on a wooded hillside above a wide valley, with what appears to be a windmill in the far distance. There is a separate study of a Gothic church tower towards the top right.

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Distant View of a Midlands Town or Castle across a Valley 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-distant-view-of-a-midlands-town-or-castle-across-a-valley-r1148643, accessed 24 April 2024.