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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hereford Cathedral: The North Porch 1795

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Hereford Cathedral: The North Porch 1795
D00602
Turner Bequest XXVI 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 264 x 203 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J WHATMAN’
Inscribed in pencil ‘Tower’ top right
Inscribed by A.J. Finberg in red ink ‘48’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 48’ bottom right
The porch was erected in a geometrical Perpendicular style by Bishop Booth in 1519, extending an earlier structure, integral with the body of the cathedral, of about 1300.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Hereford Cathedral: The North Porch 1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-hereford-cathedral-the-north-porch-r1140927, accessed 28 March 2024.