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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chester: Wharves and other Buildings by the River Dee with the Castle Above 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chester: Wharves and other Buildings by the River Dee with the Castle Above’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
Chester: Wharves and other Buildings by the River Dee with the Castle Above 1801
D05128
Turner Bequest LXXXII 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 161 x 256 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 51’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. It was used for a finished watercolour (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford),1 engraved in 1810 for William Byrne’s Britannia Depicta (Tate impression: T05948).
Other drawings in this sketchbook which apparently show Chester are on folios 35 recto and 59 recto (D05112, D05138); folio 52 recto (D05129) is a panorama of the city from near Hawarden, also developed for Byrne, while folio 36 recto (D05113) is doubtfully identified.
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Wilton 1979, p.335 no.313, reproduced.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Chester: Wharves and other Buildings by the River Dee with the Castle Above 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-chester-wharves-and-other-buildings-by-the-river-dee-with-r1178697, accessed 26 April 2024.