Joseph Mallord William Turner

Distant Views of Colchester

c.1824

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 118 x 115 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D18164
Turner Bequest CCIX 3 a

Catalogue entry

These slight and cursory views depict Colchester, in Essex. The tower with a small spire rising from its centre is pictured again in Tate D18166; Turner Bequest CCIX 4a and in the highly finished watercolour of Colchester belonging to the Courtauld Institute Gallery, London (see Tate impressions T04511–T04512).1

The right side of the page has the continuation of a prospect from the folio opposite (Tate D18165; Turner Bequest CCIX 4).

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.392 no.789.

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