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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cambridge: The Interior of the East End of King's College Chapel 1794

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cambridge: The Interior of the East End of King's College Chapel’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cambridge: The Interior of the East End of King’s College Chapel 1794
D40237
Turner Bequest XXII Aa
Pencil on white wove paper, 275 x 212 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXII Aa’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The present sheet is not listed in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue.1 A finished watercolour of the choir of King’s College Chapel is now untraced;2 Turner exhibited a view of the Choir in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge at the Royal Academy in 1795 (616; also untraced).3 As Wilton notes, these two may be identical.
A view of the exterior of the Chapel was commissioned by Mr Lyte on the basis of the drawing Tate D00354 (Turner Bequest XXII A), which bears that name on its verso (D40271), as does the verso of the present study (D40238).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.35.
2
Wilton 1979, p.309 no.76.
3
Ibid., p.309 no.77.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cambridge: The Interior of the East End of King’s College Chapel 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-cambridge-the-interior-of-the-east-end-of-kings-college-r1141095, accessed 25 April 2024.