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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Grantham: The Market Square 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Grantham: The Market Square’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Recto:
Grantham: The Market Square 1797
D00995
Turner Bequest XXXIV 84
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Brookes]’, ‘HAND’, ‘G’, ‘T’, ‘S’ and ‘X’ in the drawing
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV 84’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally. Turner had already made a watercolour of Grantham (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)1 for Benjamin Howlett’s Select Views in the County of Lincoln, basing it on another artist’s drawing; see also the studies between folios 84 recto and 87 recto (D00990–D00993; Turner Bequest XXXIV 80–82). It was published on 1 March 1797 (no Tate impression). The spire is that of St Wulfram’s Parish Church, almost 300 feet (91 metres) high; the building in the centre of the range facing the viewer is the Angel Hotel. David Hill conjectures that Turner stayed there on his return journey from the north.
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.325 no.232, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Grantham: The Market Square 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-grantham-the-market-square-r1150153, accessed 24 April 2024.