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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Margate and Life Drawing c.1830-40 > Gravesend and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hilly Terrain, ?Kent c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hilly Terrain, ?Kent’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Hilly Terrain, ?Kent c.1832
D27347
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘43’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 43’ bottom left, descending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of a hillside, possibly in Kent. For more information on the Kentish views in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Hilly Terrain, ?Kent c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hilly-terrain-kent-r1181483, accessed 25 April 2024.