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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chester: Buildings Seen from the River, with Northgate Bridge and the Tower of the Cathedral 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chester: Buildings Seen from the River, with Northgate Bridge and the Tower of the Cathedral’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Chester: Buildings Seen from the River, with Northgate Bridge and the Tower of the Cathedral 1801
D05138
Turner Bequest LXXXII 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 256 x 161 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘59’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Another view of Chester is on folio 58 recto (D05137).
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Chester: Buildings Seen from the River, with Northgate Bridge and the Tower of the Cathedral 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-chester-buildings-seen-from-the-river-with-northgate-bridge-r1178707, accessed 24 April 2024.