'Kew Palace with Syon House in the Distance to the Right; the Dutch House in the Foreground', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Kew Palace with Syon House in the Distance to the Right; the Dutch House in the Foreground

From Studies for Pictures: Isleworth Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XC

Date 1805

MediumPen and ink on paper

Dimensionssupport: 150 x 258 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D05556

Turner Bequest XC 42

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 42 Recto:

Kew Palace with Syon House in the Distance to the Right; the Dutch House in the Foreground 1805

D05556
Turner Bequest XC 42

Pen and ink on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 150 x 258 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘42’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XC 42’ bottom left, descending vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For another view of Kew, including the Dutch House, and Syon, seen from the middle of the Thames, see folio 8 verso of the sketchbook (D05501). For a classical composition possibly based on this view, with a similar rustic bridge, see the double-page spread on folios 43 verso–45 (D05558–D05560) and perhaps another on folios 57 verso–58 (D05582–D05583). Gage remarks on Turner’s typically ‘attenuated trees’ in the present sketch and on folio 43 (D05557), comparing them to examples in his pictures of around 1811 on the basis that the sketchbook was approximately of 1811–12 as mistakenly redated by Finberg (see Introduction).

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.