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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gabled Houses ?1793

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gabled Houses’ ?1793
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Gabled Houses ?1793
D40225
Pencil on white wove paper, 215 x 274 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘Recto D00126 verso D40225’ towards bottom left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These very slight sketches, not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 are perhaps of the buildings shown in more detail on the recto (D00126; Turner Bequest XI A).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.14.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Gabled Houses ?1793 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-gabled-houses-r1141325, accessed 21 November 2024.