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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Verso:
Three Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon 1833
D29203
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 87a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See Introduction to the sketchbook for the presence of a small run of sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon dating from 1833, including the three here:
i. (main sketch) The left part of a two-part panorama of the looking down the river with Holy Trinity Church at the left on this page, and continued to the right on the opposite page (D29204; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 88).
ii. (above left) Distant view down the river.
iii. (inverted in relation to main sketch) A building, presumably also at Stratford.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-sketches-at-stratford-upon-avon-r1144751, accessed 25 April 2024.