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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Greenwich Hospital and Observatory from Crooms Hill 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Greenwich Hospital and Observatory from Crooms Hill’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Greenwich Hospital and Observatory from Crooms Hill 1796–7
D01168
Turner Bequest XXXVII 51
Pencil and white chalk on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 51’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 25 verso opposite (D01167; Turner Bequest XXXVII 50).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Greenwich Hospital and Observatory from Crooms Hill 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-greenwich-hospital-and-observatory-from-crooms-hill-r1149860, accessed 19 September 2024.