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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cambridge: The West End of King's College Chapel, from the West 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cambridge: The West End of King's College Chapel, from the West’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cambridge: The West End of King’s College Chapel, from the West 1794
D00354
Turner Bequest XXII A
Pencil on white wove paper, 277 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Kings’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXII A’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A watercolour based on this study is in the collection of King’s College, Cambridge.1 A view of King’s College, Cambridge, 235 x 311 mm, signed lower right and dated 1795, was with Christie’s, London, in October 2007.
Further studies of the Chapel are Tate D00371 (Turner Bequest XXII R), and Tate D40237 (Turner Bequest XXII Aa); like the present subject, the latter was to be the basis of a work commissioned by Mr Lyte; see the inscription on the verso (D40271).
1
Wilton 1979, p.309 no.78, reproduced.
Technical notes:
The sheet is stained.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cambridge: The West End of King’s College Chapel, from the West 1794 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-cambridge-the-west-end-of-kings-college-chapel-from-the-west-r1141092, accessed 27 April 2024.