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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Carriage Sketches of Hills, a Spire and Figures on a Road 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Carriage Sketches of Hills, a Spire and Figures on a Road’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Carriage Sketches of Hills, a Spire and Figures on a Road 1835
D30313
Turner Bequest CCCI 9 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches were probably taken whilst Turner was on the road, travelling by carriage from Dresden towards Teplitz (modern day Teplice in the Czech Republic). The artist has dashed off a town or road with hills in the distance. Cursory figures are rendered in the foreground.
A separate sketch of hillside at right is a continuation of one large view begun on the folio opposite (Tate D30312; Turner Bequest CCCI 9).

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Carriage Sketches of Hills, a Spire and Figures on a Road 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-carriage-sketches-of-hills-a-spire-and-figures-on-a-road-r1186697, accessed 27 April 2024.