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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tower in a Landscape 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tower in a Landscape’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 152 Verso:
Tower in a Landscape 1824
D19849
Turner Bequest CCXVI 148 c
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough and undeveloped sketch, dashed off by Turner in an instant, appears to show a tower in a landscape.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Tower in a Landscape 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-tower-in-a-landscape-r1174642, accessed 18 April 2024.