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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Windsor Castle: St George's Chapel, with the Entrance to Horse-Shoe Cloisters ?1792

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windsor Castle: St George's Chapel, with the Entrance to Horse-Shoe Cloisters’ ?1792
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Windsor Castle: St George’s Chapel, with the Entrance to Horse-Shoe Cloisters ?1792
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Turner Bequest VIII E
Pencil on white wove paper, 271 x 225 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘2 first Broke’ (referring to pinnacles) top right, ‘yellow and Cold | Stone | the Octagon Cold’ centre left, and with letters and numerals including ‘BB’, ‘B’, ‘34’, ‘43’, ‘3’, ‘42’ within the drawing
Inscribed in red ink ‘VIII, E.’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘VIII E’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Windsor Castle: St George’s Chapel, with the Entrance to Horse-Shoe Cloisters ?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-windsor-castle-st-georges-chapel-with-the-entrance-to-horse-r1140244, accessed 21 November 2024.