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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of a Town 1834

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of a Town’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Sketches of a Town 1834
D26707
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 22a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 184 x 116 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Edward Croft-Murray ‘18’ top left running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the portrait format are three sketches of a town. At the top of the page is a sketch of a tower house that resembles Traquair House near Innerleithen, which Turner sketched in the Edinburgh sketchbook, 1843 (Tate D26127; Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 17a). The town depicted in the two sketches below, however, does not look like Innerleithen. A possible identification is Perth, which may be depicted on the opposite sketchbook page: folio 17 verso (D26712; CCLXXII 25), and is depicted elsewhere in the sketchbook: folios 31 and 31 verso (D26745, D26744; CCLXXII 41a, 41).

Thomas Ardill
March 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sketches of a Town 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-sketches-of-a-town-r1136401, accessed 23 April 2024.