Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lincoln: The Cathedral Seen over Houses, from the South West

1794

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Drawings Made on the Midland Tour
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 216 × 276 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D00364
Turner Bequest XXII K

Catalogue entry

Turner exhibited a watercolour of Lincoln Cathedral seen from Exchequer Gate at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1795 (British Museum, London; Henderson collection, 1878–12–28–48),1 the composition of which is based on the study Tate D00342 (Turner Bequest XXI O). He no doubt also referred to the present drawing for many of the details of the building.

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.313 no.124, pl.22 (colour).

Technical notes:

The sheet has been stained by previous contact with a wooden back board.

Verso:

Blank; inscribed in a later hand ‘178’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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