'Stalls at a Fair, with Banners', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Stalls at a Fair, with Banners

From Marford Mill Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XX

Date 1794

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 99 x 152 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D00273

Turner Bequest XX 11

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 11 Recto:

Stalls at a Fair, with Banners 1794

D00273
Turner Bequest XX 11

Pencil on white laid paper, 99 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘11’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XX 11’ bottom left, descending vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Perhaps connected with the watercolour of Woolverhampton, Staffordshire (Wolverhampton Art Gallery);1 see folio 9 recto (D00270). Other fairground studies in this book are on folios 15 recto and verso, 16 recto and 35 verso (D00276–D00278, D00311). Note the drawing of Wolverhampton church in the Matlock sketchbook (Tate D00229; Turner Bequest XIX 21). J.P. Heseltine 2 suggested ‘Greenwich Fair’.

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.315 no.139, pl.23 (colour).

MS note in Tate catalogue files.

Verso:

Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram centre.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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