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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views with Hills and Distant Buildings 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views with Hills and Distant Buildings’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Verso:
Views with Hills and Distant Buildings 1840
D31375
Turner Bequest CCCX 50a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page used horizontally both ways, there are at least three sketches here, with hills and distant buildings, likely including castles and towns. They are among the few in this sketchbook to remain unidentified (see the Introduction), and Cecilia Powell has briefly noted that they were ‘made while travelling’.1 Passau is shown on many adjacent pages (see under folio 48 verso; D31371), but the sequence of drawings does not always reflect Turner’s overall route.
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See Powell 1995, p.243.
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, offset to or from folio 51 recto opposite (D31376), and perhaps dating from the 1928 Tate Gallery flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Views with Hills and Distant Buildings 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-with-hills-and-distant-buildings-r1196163, accessed 20 September 2024.