Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Extensive Landscape with River or Estuary and a Distant Mountain
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
building - non-specific
landscape
mountain
river
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
painting oil paint canvas
Extensive Landscape with River or Estuary and a Distant Mountain
support: 1410 × 2515 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p><b>530. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-extensive-landscape-with-river-or-estuary-and-a-distant-mountain-n05542" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05542</span></a>]<b> Extensive Landscape with River or Estuary and a Distant Mountain</b> <i>c.</i> 1830–40? </p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5542)</p>
<p>Canvas, original size approx. 55 1/2 × 99 (141 × 251·5); the picture has been restretched on a different sized stretcher, 58 1/4 × 94 (148 ×238·5), with the result that approx. 3 1/2 (9), 1(2·5) and 1 1/2 (4) of painted canvas is turned over the left, top and right edges while 3 3/4 (9·5) of unpainted canvas is exposed within the stretcher area at the bottom</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (249, 1 unidentified 8'1" × 4'10 3/4"; identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 168, 190.</p>
<p>The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> is a double one, typical of many of Turner's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a>, and the fact that the double canvas has survived suggests that the canvas was at least removed from the original stretcher, if not restretched, by Turner himself.</p>
<p>The picture has not yet been cleaned and the forms are barely laid in, but the rectangular shapes in the foreground suggest that Turner had some architectural features in mind.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture building - non-specific landscape mountain river townscapes / man-made features water: inland