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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buchau 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buchau’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
Buchau 1835
D30758
Turner Bequest CCCIV 67
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[h]onig’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Buckhaw’ bottom centre towards right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘67’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a quick sketch of the town of Buchau (inscribed ‘Buckhaw’) in Bohemia (now Bochov in the Czech Republic). The buildings depicted are probably the town hall and church.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buchau 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-buchau-r1187133, accessed 27 September 2024.