J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Wey, Guildford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Guildford: Quarry Street from a Second-Floor Window in the White Lion Hotel, High Street, with St Mary to the Right and the Castle above to the Left 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Guildford: Quarry Street from a Second-Floor Window in the White Lion Hotel, High Street, with St Mary to the Right and the Castle above to the Left’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Guildford: Quarry Street from a Second-Floor Window in the White Lion Hotel, High Street, with St Mary to the Right and the Castle above to the Left 1805
D06320
Turner Bequest XCVIII 117a
Pencil on white laid paper, 117 x 182 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In a pencil annotation to a copy of Finberg in Tate’s Library, Edward Croft-Murray deleted the ‘Possibly’ from Finberg’s tentative identification of Guildford, since confirmed by Hill with an exact description of the viewpoint. Hill concludes that Turner stayed at the White Lion, a large coaching inn overlooking the High Street at the junction with Quarry Street, and drew this view from his room. As well as the Castle and St Mary’s Church, it includes the Star Inn on the right.

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Guildford: Quarry Street from a Second-Floor Window in the White Lion Hotel, High Street, with St Mary to the Right and the Castle above to the Left 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-guildford-quarry-street-from-a-second-floor-window-in-the-r1130504, accessed 23 April 2024.