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J.M.W Turner, The colosseum, pen and grey washes, unframed
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- pencil with grey and blue wash on wove paper watermarked: J Whatman
Provenance
Agnew's, London;
Charles A. Balwin;
Archibald Bianchi
Exhibited
London, Walker's Gallery, The 26th Annual Exhibition of Early English Water-colours, 1930, no 163 (ill.)
California, University Art Museum, Berkeley, J.M.W. Turner, September-November 1975, no. 3
California, University Art Museum, Berkeley, J.M.W. Turner, September-November 1975, no. 3
Catalogue Note
Dating from the mid 1790's, this drawing was copied from a drawing or print by another hand. Turner was about twenty when he drew the work and it may have been in the house of Dr. Thomas Monro in Adelphi Terrace. Here, during the evenings, the young Turner, Thomas Girtin who was the same age, and others were invited to copy the work of artists who had travelled on the continent, among them John Robert Cozens (1752-1797).