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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of Colchester c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Colchester’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Views of Colchester c.1824
D18274
Turner Bequest CCIX 60 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory sketches were taken with the book turned upside down. Previously unidentified, this cataloguer proposes that Turner depicts the Essex town of Colchester here. The profile of Colchester Castle can be seen at centre towards left, marked by a tower topped with a dome. The River Colne is suggested loosely in the foreground.
See also Tate D18164–D18166, D18169, D18171, D18186, D18275–D18276, D18286, D18296–D18297; Turner Bequest CCIX 3a–4a, 6a, 7a, 16, 61–62, 71, 80a–81 and the highly finished watercolour Colchester produced for the England and Wales print series (Courtauld Institute Galleries, London).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.392 no.789.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of Colchester c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-of-colchester-r1181156, accessed 20 September 2024.