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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A View over Mountains 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A View over Mountains’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A View over Mountains 1801
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Turner Bequest LVIII 54
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 345 x 488 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 54’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In its tentative incompleteness this suggestion of the shifting visibility of the view from a mountain–top anticipates some of Turner’s late oil studies, such as the so–called ‘Val d’Aosta’, now known as Falls of Schaffhausen (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).1
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.305 no.520, pl.524 (colour).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A View over 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-a-view-over-mountains-r1179826, accessed 20 April 2024.