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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cityscape with Classical Buildings 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cityscape with Classical Buildings’ 1832 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover
Cityscape with Classical Buildings 1832
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Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed in pencil and ink with various executors’ notes (see main entry)
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLXXVIII’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXVIII’ top left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of classical buildings is one of several in this volume. For more information, see the sketchbook introduction.
Various executor’s notes appear along the bottom of this inside cover, inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated. In ink, Charles Turner inscribed his signature and wrote ‘No 325 Contains 18 leaves in Pencil’. Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight left their initials in pencil. The sketches were recorded in A.J. Finberg’s 1909 Inventory but not given a separate number.1

John Chu
March 2015

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A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.884.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cityscape with Classical Buildings 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cityscape-with-classical-buildings-r1181358, accessed 26 July 2026.