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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Landscape with Distant Mountains 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Landscape with Distant Mountains’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 93 Recto:
A Landscape with Distant Mountains 1798
D01620
Turner Bequest XL 91
Pen and ink on white laid paper, 95 x 135 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘91’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XL – 91’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing in pen and black ink was made with the page turned horizontally.
Technical notes:
There is a grey colour trial at the top right relative to the drawing, perhaps for the monochrome study of Dunstanburgh on folios 86 verso–87 recto (D01607–D01608; Turner Bequest XL 84a–85).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Landscape with Distant Mountains 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-landscape-with-distant-mountains-r1173859, accessed 18 April 2024.