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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A High Hill above Trees beyond a Road in a Valley c.1800-1

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A High Hill above Trees beyond a Road in a Valley’ c.1800-1
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
A High Hill above Trees beyond a Road in a Valley c.1800–1
D03673
Turner Bequest LXI 21
Pencil and white chalk on white wove paper prepared with a grey ground, 206 x 131 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘21’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXI – 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This landscape was perhaps copied after Gaspard Dughet (1615–1675), though the slight sketch here does not use the same technique as the pencil copies after Dughet at the beginning of the book; see folios 1 recto, 2 recto and 3 recto (D03653–D03655).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A High Hill above Trees beyond a Road in a Valley c.1800–1 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-high-hill-above-trees-beyond-a-road-in-a-valley-r1178059, accessed 18 April 2024.