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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Lot 169
01.02.2024 12:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1132735
Lot 169 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Plymouth Citadel, a gale

graphite and watercolour with scratching out

7 ¼ x 11 1⁄8 in. (18.5 x 28.1 cm.)





Provenance

George Hibbert (who supposedly purchased the watercolour directly from Turner); Christie’s, London, 2 May 1860, lot 107 (120 gns to Rought).

Mr Rought.

John Heugh, Manchester.

with Agnew’s, London, sold 29 March 1862 (17.5 gns to Sam Mendel).

Sam Mendel.

with Agnew's, London.

Albert Levy; Christie’s, London, 1 April 1876, lot 278 (265 gns to Permain).

Robert Thornton; Christie's, London, 15 May 1896, lot 115 (160 gns to Agnew's).

with Agnew's, London.

John F. Haworth, 30 November 1896.

with Agnew’s, London, 18 June 1900, where purchased by

Ralph Brocklebank (†); Christie's, London, 7 July 1922, lot 38 (320 gns to Leggatt).

Mrs R.W. Reford, 1967.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 11 November 1999, lot 9.



Literature

W. Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London, 1862, II, pp. 406-7.

R. Radcliffe Carter, Pictures & Engravings at Haughton Hall, Tarporley, in the Possession of Ralph Brocklebank, with descriptive and biographical notes and an introduction, London, 1904, p. 86, no. 76.

W.G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London, I, 1908, p. 75, under no. 137.

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London and Fribourg, 1979, p. 350, no. 440, as 'untraced'.

E. Shanes, Turner's Rivers, Harbours and Coasts, London, 1981, pp. 8, 43, no. 98.

E. Shanes, Turner's England, 1810-1838, London, 1990, pp. 10, 262, no. 228.



Exhibited

Manchester, Royal Manchester Institution, Watercolour exhibition, 1861, number untraced.

London, South Kensington, International Exhibition, 1 May - 1 November 1862.
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