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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wolverhampton: The Parish Church of St Peter and Houses in High Green, with Market Stalls 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wolverhampton: The Parish Church of St Peter and Houses in High Green, with Market Stalls’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Wolverhampton: The Parish Church of St Peter and Houses in High Green, with Market Stalls 1794
D00229
Turner Bequest XIX 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘21’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XIX 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The study is continued on folio 23 recto (D00230; Turner Bequest XIX 22). It was used for the finished watercolour of Woolverhampton, Staffordshire exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796 (Wolverhampton Art Gallery).1 See several studies of fairground stalls in the Marford Mill sketchbook, which seem to relate to that watercolour, e.g. Tate D00270, D00273, D00276–D00278 (Turner Bequest XX 9, 11, 15, 15a, 16 recto).
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.315 no.139, pl.23 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Wolverhampton: The Parish Church of St Peter and Houses in High Green, with Market Stalls 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-wolverhampton-the-parish-church-of-st-peter-and-houses-in-r1140749, accessed 28 April 2024.