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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town Square, with a Tower and Arcaded Building 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town Square, with a Tower and Arcaded Building’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 98 Verso:
A Town Square, with a Tower and Arcaded Building 1835
D30816
Turner Bequest CCCIV 98 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[h]onig’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Was[...]’ rear (inverted), ‘6’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of an unidentified town, taken from its main square. An arcaded building can be seen at centre, next to the baroque bell tower of a church or town hall (continued onto the folio opposite, Tate D30817; Turner Bequest CCCIV 99). An illegible inscription has been written at rear.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Town Square, with a Tower and Arcaded Building 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-a-town-square-with-a-tower-and-arcaded-building-r1187191, accessed 05 April 2026.