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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Spithead Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Guildford High Street, Looking Towards St Catherine's Hill 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Guildford High Street, Looking Towards St Catherine's Hill’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
Guildford High Street, Looking Towards St Catherine’s Hill 1807
D06572
Turner Bequest C 47a
Pencil on off white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘C 47a’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. The subject is certainly Guildford. The roofline of the buildings on the left extends slightly on folio 53 of the sketchbook (D06573; Turner Bequest C 48).

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Guildford High Street, Looking Towards St Catherine’s Hill 1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2006, 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-guildford-high-street-looking-towards-st-catherines-hill-r1139106, accessed 19 April 2024.