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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fairground Stall with Figures and Banners ?1794

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fairground Stall with Figures and Banners’ ?1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Fairground Stall with Figures and Banners ?1794
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Turner Bequest XXIII I
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 137 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘XXIII.I’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXIII I’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This and Tate D00380 (Turner Bequest XXIII F) may relate to Turner’s finished watercolour of Woolverhampton, Staffordshire, exhibited in 1796 (Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum).1
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.315 no.139, pl.23 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Fairground Stall with Figures and Banners ?1794 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-a-fairground-stall-with-figures-and-banners-r1140239, accessed 23 November 2024.