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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Guildford: The Ruins of St Catherine's Chapel c.1792

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Guildford: The Ruins of St Catherine's Chapel’ c.1792
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Guildford: The Ruins of St Catherine’s Chapel c.1792
D00183
Turner Bequest XVII H
Pencil on white wove paper, 214 x 273 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘XVII.H’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XVII H’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner was to include a dramatic view of St Catherine’s Hill in his England and Wales series; the watercolour is in the British Museum, London (Lloyd Bequest).1 See also the verso (D40227).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.398 no.837, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Guildford: The Ruins of St Catherine’s Chapel c.1792 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-guildford-the-ruins-of-st-catherines-chapel-r1141326, accessed 21 November 2024.