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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Colchester c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colchester’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Recto:
Colchester c.1824
D18286
Turner Bequest CCIX 71
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘al[lee] | 18[19]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Employing agile line, here Turner has sketched a view of the town of Colchester in Essex. Colchester Castle is visible atop the ridge at centre and the River Colne and Middle Mill are rendered in the foreground. This sheet is related to the highly finished watercolour of Colchester produced for the England and Wales print series (Courtauld Institute Galleries, London).1
Other sketches of the town are found on Tate D18164–D18166, D18169, D18171, D18186, D18275–D18276, D18296–D18297; Turner Bequest CCIX 3a–4a, 6a, 7a, 16, 61–62, 80a–81.
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.392 no.789.
Verso:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘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-colchester-r1181168, accessed 23 April 2024.