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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Harewood House from the South 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Harewood House from the South’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Distant View of Harewood House from the South 1797
D02391
Turner Bequest LI X
Pencil on white wove paper, 245 x 470 mm
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN 1794’
Stamped in black ‘LI – X’ bottom right
Turner used this drawing as the basis for a finished watercolour of Harewood from the south (private collection).1
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.324 no.220, as untraced.
Technical notes:
There are paint trials at the lower left and lower right corners of the sheet.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of Harewood House from the South 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-harewood-house-from-the-south-r1150307, accessed 21 November 2024.