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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fortified Gateway; A Walled Town; Composition Studies of River Scenery 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fortified Gateway; A Walled Town; Composition Studies of River Scenery’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
A Fortified Gateway; A Walled Town; Composition Studies of River Scenery 1833
D31424
Turner Bequest CCCXI 5
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘6 W [...]’ right descending
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘5’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The top three views show a fortified gateway and walled town, followed by two composition studies of river scenery. A bridge is rendered at top left. The continuation from the folio opposite (Tate D31423; Turner Bequest CCCXI 4a) of a sketch of the Karlskirche, Vienna, is at bottom lef. ‘6 W [...]’ is inscribed.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Fortified Gateway; A Walled Town; Composition Studies of River Scenery 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-fortified-gateway-a-walled-town-composition-studies-of-r1203439, accessed 22 July 2024.