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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hills and a Distant Town 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hills and a Distant Town’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Verso:
Hills and a Distant Town 1835
D30668
Turner Bequest CCCIV 20
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]berg’ centre (inverted)
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory drawings showing mountains and a distant town are rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down and are continued onto the folio opposite (Tate D30669; Turner Bequest CCCIV 20a). Turner has inscribed a largely illegible note below one of the views which reads ‘[...]berg’ (‘berg’ meaning mountain in German).
Recto:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hills and a Distant Town 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-hills-and-a-distant-town-r1187049, accessed 26 April 2024.