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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Broad Valley among Mountains, ?between Trieste and Graz 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Broad Valley among Mountains, ?between Trieste and Graz’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
A Broad Valley among Mountains, ?between Trieste and Graz 1840
D30101
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 52a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 127 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘atman’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the main view appears to be a loose rendering of a broad valley among peaks. At the top centre there seems to be a separate study of a similar landscape.
As set out in this sketchbook’s Introduction, the general flow of Turner’s itinerary is in reverse of the Turner Bequest foliation, and this page falls within a sequence between folios 55 recto and 49 recto (D30094–D30106) likely (with reservations) to show his route north-east between Trieste to Graz (see respectively under folios 57 recto and 41 verso; D30109, D30079) through the rugged terrain of modern-day Slovenia and southern Austria. See under D30094 for further discussion.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Broad Valley among Mountains, ?between Trieste and Graz 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-broad-valley-among-mountains-between-trieste-and-graz-r1196951, accessed 26 April 2024.