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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Group of Gabled Timber-Frame Buildings 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Group of Gabled Timber-Frame Buildings’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
A Group of Gabled Timber-Frame Buildings 1794
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Turner Bequest XIX 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wrexham’ centre
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XIX 17’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned vertically, this is related to the watercolour of Wrexham in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1923–1900).1

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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Not in Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979; see James Hamilton, Turner’s Britain, exhibition catalogue, Gas Hall, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery 2003, pl.23 (colour).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Group of Gabled Timber-Frame Buildings 1794 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-a-group-of-gabled-timber-frame-buildings-r1140744, accessed 29 April 2024.