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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Street Scene; Façade of a Building 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Street Scene; Façade of a Building’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 159 Recto:
Street Scene; Façade of a Building 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 154
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘154’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–154’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The uppermost sketch is a swiftly executed street scene in a town or city; the location is difficult to decipher given the summary nature of Turner’s handling. The visible architecture includes a tall rectangular tower at right and a narrow conical tower behind it. The artist has dashed off a very slight record of a building below the street scene, taken with the sketchbook turned upside down.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Street Scene; Façade of a Building 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-street-scene-facade-of-a-building-r1174655, accessed 20 April 2024.