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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town from across a River c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town from across a River’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Town from across a River c.1830
D25090
Turner Bequest CCLXI 118
Pencil on blue wove paper, 144 x 191 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLXI 118’ bottom right
Inscribed in pen ‘118’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For the grouping and dating of these works, see the section Introduction.
Verso:
Blank except for inscriptions. Traces of white strips of paper along the edges of the sheet indicate an earlier mount. Inscribed in pencil ‘D24722’ towards bottom right. Inscribed in pencil, but partially obscured by the pasted paper, ‘232 | [...]’ bottom right.

Ben Pollitt
August 2019

How to cite

Ben Pollitt, ‘A Town from across a River c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-town-from-across-a-river-r1202186, accessed 23 November 2024.