Joseph Mallord William Turner

Interior of Durham Cathedral: The Nave and Crossing Seen from the South Aisle

1797

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Tweed and Lakes Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 370 × 274 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D01015
Turner Bequest XXXV 12

Catalogue entry

A large and splendid but apparently unfinished watercolour adapted from this study is Tate D01101 (Turner Bequest XXXVI G). Further pencil studies of the interior are on folios 15 recto and 18 recto (D01013, D01016; Turner Bequest XXXV 10, 13). See the latter entry for details of another watercolour of the interior of the cathedral.

Verso:

Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed in a later hand ‘35’ (circled in pencil); also by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.11 [?12] | XXXV-12. EF’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

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