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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Mountains; Figures 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Mountains; Figures’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
Distant Mountains; Figures 1839
D28432
Turner Bequest CCXC 41 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W Washing’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With loose, summary line Turner has rendered a mountain landscape in the Moselle Valley and above it, swift jottings of locals and women washing.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Mountains; Figures 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, 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-distant-mountains-figures-r1150715, accessed 26 April 2024.