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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797 ... > Fonthill Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View across a Valley towards Distant Hills, with a Road in the Foreground and a Village in the Middle Distance c.1799-1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View across a Valley towards Distant Hills, with a Road in the Foreground and a Village in the Middle Distance’ c.1799-1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
View across a Valley towards Distant Hills, with a Road in the Foreground and a Village in the Middle Distance c.1799–1807
D02200
Turner Bequest XLVII 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 254 x 469 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 22’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Used horizontally, this page may be linked with D02201 (Turner Bequest XLVII 24), and the two subjects drawn on the same journey. It is possible that the view here is in the neighbourhood of Fonthill.
Technical notes:
The shorter dimensions of most of the leaves from the disbound Fonthill sketchbook vary a little around the 330 mm mark, but the present sheet appears to have been considerably reduced at the top, as its height is only 254 mm.
For a proposed sequence for the sketchbook, with this page as folio 35, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View across a Valley towards Distant Hills, with a Road in the Foreground and a Village in the Middle Distance c.1799–1807 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-view-across-a-valley-towards-distant-hills-with-a-road-in-r1174253, accessed 19 April 2024.