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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Hills, Probably near Verona 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Distant Hills, Probably near Verona 1819
D14362
Turner Bequest CLXXV 24a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 185 mm
Partial watermark ‘Al | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mt [...]’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Assuming this sketch of a hilly skyline was made in sequence, the artist was probably not far west of Verona at this stage (see under folio 25 recto; D14363), although his note of the main peak’s name, perhaps made in a moving coach, is effectively illegible.

Matthew Imms
March 2017

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Distant Hills, Probably near Verona 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-hills-probably-near-verona-r1186475, accessed 28 March 2024.