'Plan of the Grounds of Sandycombe Lodge', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Plan of the Grounds of Sandycombe Lodge

From Derbyshire Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CVI

Date c.1808-9

MediumInk on paper

Dimensionssupport: 108 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D07188

Turner Bequest CVI 48 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 48 Verso:

Plan of the Grounds of Sandycombe Lodge circa 1808–9

D07188
Turner Bequest CVI 48a

Ink on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Pond’ below centre and ‘Harrow’ lower right of centre

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. Patrick Youngblood was the first to identify this rough outline as a likely ‘early plan of [the] Sandycombe site’, noting that the plot strongly resembles it in its ‘triangular outline .... rectilinear “house” form at the bottom... and a kidney-shaped pond in the middle’. It would be the earliest of several plans of the site at Twickenham that Turner bought in 1807 and where he began building a small house in about 1812. Ideas and designs for the house and garden, which contained a fish pond, abound in his sketchbooks.

David Blayney Brown
July 2010

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.