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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Tower among Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Tower among Mountains ?in the Dolomites’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
A Tower among Mountains ?in the Dolomites 1840
D32374
Turner Bequest CCCXX 57a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 149 mm
Partial watermark ‘& C’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. There appears to be a square tower outlined on towards the left. The peak of the mountain in the background is continued on folio 58 recto opposite (D32375).
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 bottom left, which has soaked through from the recto (D32374).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Tower among 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-a-tower-among-mountains-in-the-dolomites-r1196608, accessed 25 April 2024.