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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840
D32372
Turner Bequest CCCXX 56a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 149 mm
Partial watermark ‘J H’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. There appear to be towers on the jagged skyline towards the top left and near the centre.
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
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.
Technical notes:
There is an irregular brown stain at the top right, offset to or from folio 57 recto opposite (D32373). It has also soaked through to the recto (D32371).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

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-r1196606, accessed 29 March 2024.