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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner '?Graach' 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘'?Graach'’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso
‘?Graach’ 1824
D41503
Turner Bequest CCXIX 14v
Pencil on white wove paper, 160 x 235 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The word ‘Grash’ or ‘Crash’ can be seen at the upper register towards the right, inverted relative to the foliation. This is most likely Turner’s spelling of the town ‘Graach’, near Bernkastel.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘‘?Graach’ 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-graach-r1174910, accessed 23 April 2024.