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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Newport, Isle of Wight: The Town Hall 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Newport, Isle of Wight: The Town Hall’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
Newport, Isle of Wight: The Town Hall 1795
D00455
Turner Bequest XXIV 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 264 x 204 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXIV 47’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Newport Market Place, or Town Hall, as Turner records it was a picturesque building of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It would be swept away and replaced in the early years of the nineteenth, along with other civic structures in Newport, by buildings in a classical idiom designed by the island’s celebrated resident John Nash (1752–1835), with whom Turner was to stay at East Cowes Castle in the late 1820s. A tentative beginning of this subject is on folio 47 recto (D00454; Turner Bequest XXIV 46) See also folios 49 verso and 50 recto (D00456, D00457; Turner Bequest XXIV 47a, 48).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Newport, Isle of Wight: The Town Hall 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-newport-isle-of-wight-the-town-hall-r1141033, accessed 25 April 2024.