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Tintagel Castle, Cornwall
Tintagel Castle, Cornwall

Tintagel Castle, Cornwall

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
1815
Medium/TechniqueTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on paper
DimensionsSheet: 15.7 x 23.8 cm (6 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Accession number59.796
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
ProvenanceJ. G. Robinson; April 22, 1865, Robinson sale, Christie's, London, lot 50, to Agnew and Sons, London. Possibly George Clarkson Stanfield (b. 1793 - d. 1867), London [see note 1]. John Knowles (b. 1810 - d. 1880), Manchester; May 19, 1877, Knowles sale, lot 95, to Agnew. William Lee, Leatherhead, Surrey; June 22, 1888, Lee estate sale, Christie's, London, lot 361, to Agnew. William Dell, London; April 21, 1899, posthumous Dell sale, Christie's, London, lot 52 [see note 2], to Agnew. Charles Fairfax Murray (b. 1849 - d. 1919), London. Francis Bullard (b. 1862 - d. 1913), Boston; by descent to his cousin, Ellen T. Bullard (b. 1865 - d. 1959), Boston; 1959, anonymous gift from the legatees of Ellen T. Bullard to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12, 1959)

NOTES:
[1] An annotation in a copy of the Knowles auction catalogue (RKD Library, The Hague) reads "belonged to Stanfield." [2] Titled "The Sand Pits."
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