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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings on Hill ?in Northern France 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings on Hill ?in Northern France’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Buildings on Hill ?in Northern France 1824
D19584
Turner Bequest CCXVI 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘17’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered in swift summary line, Turner records the profile of a headland, with a town and its windmill built atop it.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings on Hill ?in Northern France 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-buildings-on-hill-in-northern-france-r1174372, accessed 10 May 2024.