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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps 1840
D32313
Turner Bequest CCCXX 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 89 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘27’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXX – 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There appear to be three mountain views here, one above the other with the bottom one inverted. The middle view seems to include a carriage, with what may be a distant castle on the right. The lower subject may relate to the larger view on folio 26 verso opposite (D32312).
A long sequence of sketches, mostly characterised as ‘Mountains’ by Finberg (with occasional identifications and transcriptions of the place names marked by the artist), lies between folios 7 recto and 76 recto (D32275–D32411).1 See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the likely overall route between Bregenz and Venice.2

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Finberg 1909, II, pp.1030–2.
2
See also Cecilia Powell, Turner in Germany, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, pp.65, 81 note 9.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps 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-mountains-in-the-tyrol-alps-r1196547, accessed 26 April 2024.