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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A House beside an Estuary 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A House beside an Estuary’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
A House beside an Estuary 1798
D01811
Turner Bequest XLII 135
Pencil and gouache on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘135’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 135’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 67 verso opposite (D01810; Turner Bequest XLII 134), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A House beside an Estuary 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-house-beside-an-estuary-r1174006, accessed 20 April 2024.