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 ?Hills near the Coast 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Hills near the Coast’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
?Hills near the Coast 1798
D01591
Turner Bequest XL 76a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 76 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
It is not clear that this very slight sketch, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is associated with the equally slight outline on folio 79 recto opposite (D01592; Turner Bequest XL 77), though it may be.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Hills near the Coast 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-hills-near-the-coast-r1173830, accessed 25 April 2024.