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Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775-1851
View of Dunster Castle from the Northeast
Watercolor, over faint indications in graphite, on paper.
9 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (235 x 367 mm)
Bequest of Lois Duffie Baker.
1980.32
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
This sheet and a companion view of the same subject were engraved by S. Rawle under the date of 1 May 1800 and issued separately and not as book illustrations.
Provenance:
Colonel Hibbert; his sale, London, Christie's, 4 December 1886, lot 48; (Thomas Agnew, London); W.G. Rawlinson, 1887 (no mark; see Lugt 2624); sale, London, Sotheby's, 21 November 1945, lot 53 (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); Lady Bilsland, 1967; private collection, England; Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; Lois Duffie Baker.
Associated names:
Hibbert, Colonel, former owner.
Rawlinson, W. G. (William George), 1840-1928, former owner.
Bilsland, Lady, former owner.
Baker, Lois Duffie, -1979, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 219.
European Drawings, Morgan Library, 1981, no. 123, repr. (includes full bibliography and exhibitions)
Eric Shanes, "Picture in Focus," Turner Studies: His Art and Epoch, 1775-1851, I, no. I, 1981, 52, repr.
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