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

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ID 990579
Lot 8 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
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£ 50 000 – 80 000
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Rocks at Colgong (Kahalgaon) on the Ganges, Bihar, India

pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and stopping out

5 1/4 x 7 7/8 in. (13.3 x 20.3 cm.)





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 8 April 1998, lot 145, when acquired by the present owner.



Literature

W. Armstrong, J.M.W. Turner, London, 1902, p. 258, as ‘India, Views in 1836-8, no. 7, Golgong [sic], on Ganges, rocks at…Sun sinking over river’.

W. G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, London, II, 1913, p. 317, no. 612.

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg and London, 1979, p. 455, no. 1297.

A. Lyles, Turner, The Fifth Decade, London, 1992, pp. 74-5.

J.R. Piggott, Salerooms Report, Turner Society News, No.79, September 1998, p. 6.



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