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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of Colchester c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Colchester’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Views of Colchester c.1824
D18275
Turner Bequest CCIX 61
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘al[lee] | 18[19]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory sketches were taken with the book turned upside down. Previously unidentified, this cataloguer proposes that Turner depicts the Essex town of Colchester here. The profile of Colchester Castle can be seen at centre towards left, marked by a tower topped with a dome. To the right of the Castle is the town itself, the periphery of which Turner has summarily suggested. In the foreground in the River Colne. This sheet is clearly related to the highly finished watercolour of Colchester produced for the England and Wales print series (Courtauld Institute Galleries, London).1
See also Tate D18164–D18166, D18169, D18171, D18186, D18276, D18286, D18296–D18297; Turner Bequest CCIX 3a–4a, 6a, 7a, 16, 62, 71, 80a–81.
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.392 no.789.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of Colchester c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-of-colchester-r1181157, accessed 17 January 2025.