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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salisbury Cathedral: Studies of Bosses, Capitals and the Tracery of a Window in the Chapter House c.1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salisbury Cathedral: Studies of Bosses, Capitals and the Tracery of a Window in the Chapter House’ c.1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso:
Salisbury Cathedral: Studies of Bosses, Capitals and the Tracery of a Window in the Chapter House c.1799
D02338
Turner Bequest XLIX 81a
Pencil on white laid paper, 150 x 121 mm
Part watermark: Britannia above a ‘G’ in an oval
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W’ above centre in the drawing
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner referred to these studies, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, when working on his watercolours of the Inside of the Chapter House of Salisbury Cathedral, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1799 (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester)1 and Chapter House, Salisbury, shown at the same venue in 1801 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).2

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.321 no.199, pl.45.
2
Ibid., no.201, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Salisbury Cathedral: Studies of Bosses, Capitals and the Tracery of a Window in the Chapter House c.1799 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-salisbury-cathedral-studies-of-bosses-capitals-and-the-r1174210, accessed 20 April 2024.