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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Broad Landscape with Towers on a Distant Hill 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Broad Landscape with Towers on a Distant Hill’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
A Broad Landscape with Towers on a Distant Hill 1796–7
D01162
Turner Bequest XXXVII 45
Pencil and white chalk on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 45’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 22 verso opposite (D01161; Turner Bequest XXXVII 44).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Broad Landscape with Towers on a Distant Hill 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-broad-landscape-with-towers-on-a-distant-hill-r1149854, accessed 26 April 2024.