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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rochester c.1805-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Verso:
Rochester circa 1805–9
D06482
Turner Bequest XCIX 70a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Rochester’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. For another fairly distant view of Rochester in this sketchbook, see folio 73 verso (D06480; Turner Bequest XCIX 69a).

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Rochester c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, 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-rochester-r1130678, accessed 19 September 2024.