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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > Dynevor Castle Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A House or Chapel on a Hill 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A House or Chapel on a Hill’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Verso:
A House or Chapel on a Hill 1798
D01589
Turner Bequest XL 75a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘18’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 75 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this rapid sketch supplies few clues as to the identity or location of the subject. The building may be a chapel, but could as easily be a cottage or small house. A wide and rutted road appears to ascend the hill towards it. The drawing is continued on folio 78 recto opposite (D01590; Turner Bequest XL 76).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A House or Chapel on a Hill 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-house-or-chapel-on-a-hill-r1173828, accessed 24 April 2024.