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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road among Mountains 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
A Road among Mountains 1798
D01708
Turner Bequest XLII 33
Pencil on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘33’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 33’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 16 verso opposite (D01707; Turner Bequest XLII 32), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Road among Mountains 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-road-among-mountains-r1173904, accessed 28 March 2024.