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Coniston Old Man Turner, Joseph Mallord William (draughtsman)
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Title/s	Coniston Old Man (recto title)
Maker/s	Turner, Joseph Mallord William ascribed to (draughtsman) [ULAN info: British artist, 1775-1851]
Category	drawing
Name	drawing
School/Style	British
Technique Description	recto: blue-grey wash with some graphite verso: graphite on paper
Dimensions	height: 252 mm width: 362 mm
Provenance	given: The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1931 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) Dr Crawford J. Pocock (see L. 579); John Ruskin; Arthur Severn sale, Sotheby's, 20 May 1931, lot 113, bt. for the Friends of the Fitzwilliam (£10)
Documentation	Ruskin, John Works, [page: 416-7] [comments: n. 3] Cormack, Malcolm (1975) J.M.W. Turner, R.A. 1775-1851; a catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 77-8] [comments: cat. no. 57, pl. 57 (both black and white)]
Material/s	blue-grey wash (medium) graphite (medium) paper (support)
Accession Number	1587 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 14042; Input Date: 2000-10-11 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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Coniston Old Man

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (draughtsman)