'St Catherine's Hill, Guildford', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

St Catherine's Hill, Guildford

From Spithead Sketchbook

Turner Bequest C

Date 1807

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 118 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06615

Turner Bequest C 74 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 79 Verso:

St Catherine’s Hill, Guildford 1807

D06615
Turner Bequest C 74a

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘corn’ lower left of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘C 74a’ top right, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. For the several sketches of St Catherine’s Hill in this sketchbook see mainly folio 77 verso (D06611; Turner Bequest C 72a).

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

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