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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > South Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Wells: Penniless Porch and Bishop's Eye Gateways from the Market Place 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wells: Penniless Porch and Bishop's Eye Gateways from the Market Place’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Wells: Penniless Porch and Bishop’s Eye Gateways from the Market Place 1795
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Turner Bequest XXVI 1
Pencil on white wove paper, 203 x 264 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Giles Hat Maker’ bottom left and ‘Warm Ocker something | like Peterborough yet [?Reder]’ on buildings centre right, and ‘1’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 1’ bottom left, descending vertically
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. Finberg suggests ‘Gold’ for ‘Giles’ in Turner’s note of a local business.1
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Finberg 1914, p.95.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Wells: Penniless Porch and Bishop’s Eye Gateways from the Market Place 1795 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-wells-penniless-porch-and-bishops-eye-gateways-from-the-r1140880, accessed 25 April 2024.