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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains ?in the Dolomites’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840
D32340
Turner Bequest CCCXX 40a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 149 mm
Partial watermark ‘J H’
Inscribed by Turner ‘A’ bottom right, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. A hut and pines on the right give a sense of scale to the peaks beyond. At right-angles at the bottom right is a thumbnail study of a similar scene, marked ‘A’, perhaps for Ampezzo; see under folio 38 recto (D32335).
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 Dolomites 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-dolomites-r1196574, accessed 20 April 2024.