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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lichfield Cathedral: the West End seen from the South East 1794

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lichfield Cathedral: the West End seen from the South East’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Lichfield Cathedral: the West End seen from the South East 1794
D00366
Turner Bequest XXII M
Pencil on white wove paper, 277 x 216 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXII M’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Other studies of Lichfield Cathedral in this series are Tate D00363 and D00365 (Turner Bequest XXII J, L).
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Brownlow Smith | [?Rain bow Gable House]’. The inscription is presumably a note of shop signs on the buildings included in the lower part of the drawing on the recto. The second line is difficult to decipher.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Lichfield Cathedral: the West End seen from the South East 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-lichfield-cathedral-the-west-end-seen-from-the-south-east-r1141048, accessed 25 April 2024.