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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire: The Entrance Front 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire: The Entrance Front’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire: The Entrance Front 1799
D02087
Turner Bequest XLVI 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 79 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wall’ towards bottom left, and ‘X’ four times on windows in the drawing
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘59’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 59’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 58 verso opposite (D02086), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire: The Entrance Front 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-gawthorpe-hall-lancashire-the-entrance-front-r1179946, accessed 27 September 2024.