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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare's Birthplace and Riverside 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare's Birthplace and Riverside’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Verso:
Four Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare’s Birthplace and Riverside 1833
D29211
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 91a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Windo[w]’, ‘W’
 
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. Four appear here:
i. (main sketch, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the book) Shakespeare’s birthplace, inscribed ‘Windo[w]’, ‘W’ and ‘B’. Dr Bernard Richards of Brasenose College, Oxford has kindly pointed out that the house, now much altered, was formerly a butcher’s shop although Turner’sinitial ‘B’ presumably relates to the birthplace.
ii. (right, drawn with page upright) The town and Holy Trinity Church, continued to right in (iii) below.
iii. (along gutter, drawn with page upright) Bridges in the town.
iv. (below house, drawn with the page upright) Detail of (iii), showing the Guild Chapel tower.

David Hill
June 2010

Revised by David Blayney Brown
March 2013

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Four Sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare’s Birthplace and Riverside 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, revised by David Blayney Brown, March 2013, 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-four-sketches-at-stratford-upon-avon-shakespeares-birthplace-r1144759, accessed 14 May 2024.