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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of Hills, the Last Possibly Including a Distant View of Fumay 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Hills, the Last Possibly Including a Distant View of Fumay’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
Views of Hills, the Last Possibly Including a Distant View of Fumay 1824
D19676
Turner Bequest CCXVI 63 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Slates’ bottom centre, ‘F[...]’ bottom right, ‘Rd’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Employing loose and swift line, here Turner depicts the meandering Meuse and hills near Fumay in the French Ardennes. The artist has inscribed ‘slates’ within the lowermost sketch, as he had done in the previous folio (Tate D19675; Turner Bequest CCXVI 63). Cecilia Powell has suggested that the rear view may be a distant prospect of Fumay.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of Hills, the Last Possibly Including a Distant View of Fumay 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-views-of-hills-the-last-possibly-including-a-distant-view-of-r1174464, accessed 20 September 2024.