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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > France and Folkestone Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hilly Terrain and Buildings c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hilly Terrain and Buildings’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Hilly Terrain and Buildings c.1826
D24135
Turner Bequest CCLVI 15
Pencil on white laid paper, 104 x 158 mm
Partial watermark of a crown and laurels
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black CCLVI – 15’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the upper half of this page The drawings are too cursory to identify these scenes precisely although Tate curator Ian Warrell has located some of the sketches in this volume to the region around Dover, and also Calais and Beauvais in Northern France.1
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Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.156.
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John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Hilly Terrain and Buildings c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hilly-terrain-and-buildings-r1185428, accessed 26 April 2024.