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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Broad River with a Town or Village beside It and Distant Hills, Seen from a Height 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Broad River with a Town or Village beside It and Distant Hills, Seen from a Height’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 107 Recto:
A Broad River with a Town or Village beside It and Distant Hills, Seen from a Height 1801
D02793
Turner Bequest LIV 107
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘107’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LIV 107’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg coupled the unidentified subject with the inverted sketch of Rievaulx on folio 106 verso opposite (D02792),1 but this is an independent drawing.
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See Finberg 1909, I, p.139.
Technical notes:
The leaf was not washed with the mauve-pink ground of the remainder of the book; other exceptions are folios 1, 4 and 106 (D02614, D02619–D02620, D02791–D02792).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Broad River with a Town or Village beside It and Distant Hills, Seen from a Height 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-broad-river-with-a-town-or-village-beside-it-and-distant-r1178979, accessed 19 September 2024.