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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ross-on-Wye: The Market Place 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ross-on-Wye: The Market Place’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Ross-on-Wye: The Market Place 1795
D00609
Turner Bequest XXVI 55
Pencil on white wove paper, 203 x 264 mm
Inscribed by A.J. Finberg in red ink ‘55’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 55’ bottom left, descending vertically
Another view of Ross market place is folio 65 recto (D00621; Turner Bequest XXVI 67). A view of ‘Ross Market House’ was ordered by ‘Mr Lambirt’ (see the list of ‘Order’d Drawings’, D40557); no watercolour of the subject is known.
Finberg noted that this leaf ‘was cut out and loose’, conjecturing that this was its correct position in the book.1 It is not certain whether the ‘Street Scene’ in the Loan Collection lists is to be identified with this drawing, but the sheet has evidently been on exhibition; witness the severe burning of the paper by light.
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.
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Finberg 1909, I, p.52.
Technical notes:
The sheet is discoloured from prolonged display.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Ross-on-Wye: 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-ross-on-wye-the-market-place-r1140935, accessed 25 April 2024.