'A Market Place', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Market Place

From Spithead Sketchbook

Turner Bequest C

Date 1807

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 118 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06553

Turner Bequest C 33

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 34 Recto:

A Market Place 1807

D06553
Turner Bequest C 33

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘33’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘C 33’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The same market appears on folio 33 of the sketchbook (D06552; Turner Bequest C 32).

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

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

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Spithead Sketchbook

Tate Collection

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Turner Bequest

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Joseph Mallord William TurnerA Market Place 1807

Artwork details

Turner's sketchbooks