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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Chester from the South-West, with Runcorn Hills beyond and Beeston Castle to the Right 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Chester from the South-West, with Runcorn Hills beyond and Beeston Castle to the Right’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
Distant View of Chester from the South–West, with Runcorn Hills beyond and Beeston Castle to the Right 1801
D05129
Turner Bequest LXXXII 52
Pencil on white wove paper, 161 x 256 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘52’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 52’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. It was used for an untraced watercolour,1 engraved in 1810 for William Byrne’s Britannia Depicta (Tate impression: T05730). See also folio 51 recto (D05128) and the inscription on the verso of the present leaf (D05130).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Wilton 1979, p.335 no.312.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of Chester from the South–West, with Runcorn Hills beyond and Beeston Castle to the Right 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-chester-from-the-south-west-with-runcorn-r1178698, accessed 18 July 2024.