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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with a River and a Distant Town with a High Tower 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape with a River and a Distant Town with a High Tower’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Landscape with a River and a Distant Town with a High Tower 1801
D02533
Turner Bequest LIII 42
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘42’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LIII – 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 41 verso opposite (D02532), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Landscape with a River and a Distant Town with a High Tower 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-landscape-with-a-river-and-a-distant-town-with-a-high-tower-r1178555, accessed 20 September 2024.