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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Queen's House and other Buildings, Greenwich c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Queen's House and other Buildings, Greenwich’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
The Queen’s House and other Buildings, Greenwich circa 1808
D06773
Turner Bequest CII 27a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. The building is the Queen’s House, by Inigo Jones; Turner is looking towards the south-east corner. The house appears in his picture London (Tate N00483).1 For related subjects in this sketchbook, see Introduction.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.69–70 no.97 (pl.104).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Queen’s House and other Buildings, Greenwich c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, 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-queens-house-and-other-buildings-greenwich-r1130866, accessed 24 April 2024.