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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Extensive Views of a River Valley (?Shaggie Burn) and Mountains 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Extensive Views of a River Valley (?Shaggie Burn) and Mountains’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 142 Verso:
Extensive Views of a River Valley (?Shaggie Burn) and Mountains 1801
D03187
Turner Bequest LVI 140a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 143 recto opposite (D03188; Turner Bequest LVI 141). Turner probably made this sketch from more or less the same viewpoint as that of folios 141 verso–142 recto (D03185–D03186; Turner Bequest LVI 139a–140), which feature Monzie Castle, having turned to face west.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Extensive Views of a River Valley (?Shaggie Burn) and Mountains 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-extensive-views-of-a-river-valley-shaggie-burn-and-mountains-r1179383, accessed 19 April 2024.