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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Hills at ?Calais 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Hills at ?Calais’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
Distant Hills at ?Calais 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 10 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered swiftly, here Turner has sketched the profile of hills or coastline in the distance. The location may be Calais where the artist started his tour on 11 August 1824.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Hills at ?Calais 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, 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-hills-at-calais-r1174359, accessed 16 April 2024.