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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Town 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Town’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
Sketches of Town 1824
D19687
Turner Bequest CCXVI 69 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory sketch shows a township with a waterwheel at left. The drawing is too slight to identify, though it is likely that Turner pictures the same town as is depicted on the opposite folio (Tate D19688; Turner Bequest CCXVI 70).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of Town 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-sketches-of-town-r1174476, accessed 26 April 2024.