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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Fortifications of Seringapatam c.1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Fortifications of Seringapatam’ c.1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Fortifications of Seringapatam c.1801
D17190
Turner Bequest CXCVI Z
Pencil and watercolour with stopping–out on white wove paper, 416 x 660 mm
Stamped in black ‘CXCVI – Z’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing is a preparatory study for one of a group of views at Seringapatam executed by Turner about 1801; his finished watercolour has recently come to light,1 titled ‘Cullaly Deedy, water–gate in the Outer–rampart of SERINGAPATAM, where Tippoo Sultan resided during the Siege’. See the entry for The Seige of Seringapatam (Tate T04160).
The composition corresponds closely to a watercolour in the India Office collection at the British Library, London, by an anonymous artist, perhaps Thomas Sydenham (1780–1816), titled ‘Gateway where Tippoo resided during the Siege of Seringapatam’.
1
See Wilton 2013, pp.15–16, reproduced in colour; Piggott 2015, p.33.
Technical notes:
The sheet is torn and rubbed.
Verso:

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
April 2015

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Fortifications of Seringapatam c.1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, revised by Matthew Imms, April 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-fortifications-of-seringapatam-r1178478, accessed 26 April 2024.