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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Winding River with a Ruined Tower on a Hill 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Winding River with a Ruined Tower on a Hill’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
A Winding River with a Ruined Tower on a Hill 1801
D02528
Turner Bequest LIII 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
Partial watermark ‘94 | atman’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 40 recto opposite (D02529). The same hill and tower may be shown in the distance in the view on folios 40 verso–41 recto (D02530–D02531); however, see the entry for D02530 for further discussion. Finberg suggested that the river here is the Tweed.1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.135.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Winding River with a Ruined Tower on a Hill 1801 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-winding-river-with-a-ruined-tower-on-a-hill-r1178550, accessed 25 April 2024.