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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of a Town 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of a Town’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Sketches of a Town 1835
D30657
Turner Bequest CCCIV 14
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘zo[nen]’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘14’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches show the profile of a town. The handling is similar to sketches rendered on the folio opposite (Tate D30656; Turner Bequest CCCIV 13a).
Technical notes:
There are smudges of black pigment or chalk across the central and lower registers of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of a Town 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-a-town-r1187038, accessed 17 May 2024.