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

Lot 170
01.02.2024 12:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1132849
Lot 170 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON, 1775-1851)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON, 1775-1851)

Cologne from the river

signed 'JMW Turner' (lower right) and indistinctly further signed (lower center)

graphite and watercolor with scratching out

9 ½ x 13 1⁄8 in. (24.2 x 33.3 cm)





Provenance

Commissioned by James Rivington Wheeler, for 30 gns, and by descent to his nephew,

Henry James Wheeler.

Anonymous sale; Foster’s, Pall Mall, London, 1 June 1864, lot 48 (unsold).

Captain H. R. Ray.

Gertrude Emma Hunt.

Anonymous sale; Foster’s, Pall Mall, London, 10 June 1896, lot 100 (480 gns to Agnew).

with Agnew's, London, where purchased by

Thomas F. Blackwell; Christie’s, London, 9 June 1979, lot 124.

with Mitsukoshi, Tokyo.

Private collection, Japan.



Literature

A. Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, 1921, III, p.248.

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, 1979, p. 490, no. 689a.

E. Yardley, ‘The Turner Collector: “That Munificent Gentleman” – James Rivington Wheeler’, Turner Studies, winter 1986, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 51, 54-6, 58, 60 n.17; and repr. p. 53.

C. Powell, Turner’s Rivers of Europe: The Rhine, Meuse and Mosel, London, 1991, pp. 34, 59, n. 62, 110 under cat. 21.

C. Powell, Turner in Germany, London, 1995, pp. 28, 77, n. 53, 105, under cat. 20.
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