Joseph Mallord William Turner, Weir and Cattle c.1806-7
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167. [N02705] Weir and Cattle c. 1806–7
THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (2705)
Canvas, 34 3/4 × 47 1/4 (88 × 120)
Coll. Turner Bequest 1856 (? one of 219–35); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1910.
Exh. Cape Town 1952 (26).
Lit. Davies 1946, pp. 156, 189.
Christopher Pinsent has suggested that this may show the Wey near Guildford (letter of 2 March 1970).
[from] Nos. 160–76: Large Thames Sketches c. 1806–7
THIS group of seventeen sketches on canvas from the Turner bequest, though carried to different degree of finish, are all similar in technique, being lightly painted over a dry chalky ground, and are all roughly similar in size save for Sketch for ‘Harvest Dinner, Kingston Bank’, which measures only 24 × 36 in. (No… (read more)
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