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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chester: The City in the Distance, the River in the Foreground with Figures and Animals beside It, and a Windmill to the Right 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chester: The City in the Distance, the River in the Foreground with Figures and Animals beside It, and a Windmill to the Right’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
Chester: The City in the Distance, the River in the Foreground with Figures and Animals beside It, and a Windmill to the Right 1801
D05137
Turner Bequest LXXXII 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 161 x 256 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘58’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 58’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. See also folio 59 recto (D05138).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Chester: The City in the Distance, the River in the Foreground with Figures and Animals beside It, and a Windmill to the Right 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-chester-the-city-in-the-distance-the-river-in-the-foreground-r1178706, accessed 19 April 2024.