'Shrewsbury: The Old Market House', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Shrewsbury: The Old Market House

From Drawings Made on the Midland Tour

Date 1794

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 214 x 276 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D00405

Turner Bequest XXIII e

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Shrewsbury: The Old Market House 1794

D00405
Turner Bequest XXIII e

Pencil, 213 x 138 mm on white wove paper, 216 x 275 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXIII e’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

C.F. Bell identified the building as the ‘Town Hall’; this is in fact the Old Market House, built in 1596 to a design by Walter Hancock.1

See Nikolaus Pevsner, Shropshire, The Buildings of England, Harmondsworth 1958, p.266.

Technical notes:

The sheet is folded vertically in the centre with the drawing only occupying the right half.

Verso:

Blank; stamped in brown 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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Context

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Geographic location

British Isles

Midlands

Shropshire

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

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Joseph Mallord William TurnerShrewsbury: The Old Market House 1794

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