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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of the Malvern Hills 1798-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of the Malvern Hills’ 1798-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Distant View of the Malvern Hills 1798–9
D01714
Turner Bequest XLII 39
Pencil and white gouache on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Malvern Hills’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘39’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 39’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 19 verso (D01713; Turner Bequest XLII 38), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of the Malvern Hills 1798–9 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-distant-view-of-the-malvern-hills-r1173910, accessed 27 April 2024.