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 89 Verso:
Three Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon 1833
D29207
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 89a
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. Three appear here:
i. (main sketch, inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the book) Holy Trinity Church seen over the bridge, continued to the right to include the Guild Chapel on the opposite page (D29208; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 90).
ii. (right, drawn with the page upright) Holy Trinity Church and the Guild Chapel seen over the river.
iii. The town from the river, the continuation of (ii) to the right.

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-r1144755, accessed 27 April 2024.