'A Ballad-Seller's Stall', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Ballad-Seller's Stall

From Watercolours and Studies Relating to the Welsh and Marches Tours

Date 1793

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 212 x 136 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D00151

Turner Bequest XIII F

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

A Ballad-Seller’s Stall 1793

D00151
Turner Bequest XIII F

Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 137 mm; 212 x 137 mm
Watermark ‘WHATMAN’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue and yellow’ bottom right, and ‘WORCESTER | [?O] | LUDLOW | MAIL’ on poster on wall toward top left of drawing
Inscribed in red ink ‘XIII.F’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XIII F’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

As Finberg notes,1 the figure and details recorded in this study were used by Turner in the finished watercolour of Worcester Cathedral in the British Museum, London (Henderson Bequest).2

1

Finberg 1909, I, p.17.

2

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.308 no.67, pl.16.

Technical notes:

The sheet has been folded in half, with the upper part left blank.

Verso:

Blank; stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Gifts and bequests

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