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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Blackfriars' Cross, Hereford ?1793

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Blackfriars' Cross, Hereford’ ?1793
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Blackfriars’ Cross, Hereford ?1793
D00150
Turner Bequest XIII E
Pencil on white wove paper, 409 x 252 mm
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN’
Stamped in black ‘XIII E’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
On a sheet considerably larger than the rest of the 1792–3 series, and a design that does not fit the available space, this may be a tracing (compare Tate D00149 and D00154; Turner Bequest XIII D, XIV A), preparatory for the watercolour now at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent,1 which can be dated, on stylistic grounds, to 1792–3. Another version of the subject is at Gallery Oldham, and a further version, in blue and grey washes, was sold at Sotheby’s, London, November 20 1986 (87),2 And is now in Hereford Museum and Art Gallery.
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.306 no.47, reproduced.
2
See ‘Salerooms’, Turner Society News, no.43, February 1987, p.6, reproduced.
Technical notes:
The sheet was once folded horizontally 85 mm below the upper edge of the sheet; the top of the image is about 140 mm below the upper edge.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed in a modern hand ‘8’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Blackfriars’ Cross, Hereford ?1793 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-blackfriars-cross-hereford-r1141172, accessed 19 April 2024.