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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of a Town 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of a Town’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Sketches of a Town 1835
D30656
Turner Bequest CCCIV 13 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[jan h]onig’ | ‘[jh]&z’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are cursory sketches of an unidentified town. The building with a teardrop-shaped spire appears elsewhere in this book, on Tate D30649; Turner Bequest CCCIV 10. See also Tate D30657; Turner Bequest CCCIV 14.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of a Town 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-a-town-r1187037, accessed 21 November 2024.