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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hilly Landscape, ?Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hilly Landscape, ?Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 115 Verso:
Hilly Landscape, ?Île-de-France 1832
D24394
Turner Bequest CCLVII 115a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘V’ centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the central strip of this page with a sketch of a hilly landscape punctuated by distant buildings. The handling is too cursory here to suggest a location, although this volume contains numerous such landscapes taken in the countryside surrounding Paris and around the River Marne to the east of the city. For comparison, a list of these drawings is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Hilly Landscape, ?Île-de-France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-hilly-landscape-le-de-france-r1175422, accessed 21 September 2024.