Joseph Mallord William Turner

Coventry from the North

1830

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Birmingham and Coventry Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 78 × 110 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D22347
Turner Bequest CCXL 15

Catalogue entry

This slight sketch of buildings and trees appears to be a continuation of the view of Coventry from the north on folio 14 recto (D22345). Andrew Wilton apparently cited this page 1 as relating to Turner’s watercolour Coventry of about 1832 (British Museum, London),2 engraved in 1833 for the Picturesque Views in England and Wales (Tate impression: T06105). However, the elements shown here do not appear in the finished composition, for which see folios 25 verso–26 recto and 26 verso–27 recto (D22368–D22371), the other sources given by Wilton; the sketch of church spires on the verso (D22348), mentioned by him elsewhere,3 was presumably intended.

For other Coventry views, see under folio 9 verso (D22336).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.399 under no.849, as ‘CXXL–15’.

Ibid., no.849, reproduced.

See Andrew Wilton, Turner in the British Museum: Drawings and Watercolours, exhibition catalogue, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London 1975, p.123 under no.197.

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