'The Pavilion, Isleworth, with Sion Ferry House and Syon House', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The Pavilion, Isleworth, with Sion Ferry House and Syon House

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

D05602

Turner Bequest XC 72 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 72 Verso:

The Pavilion, Isleworth, with Sion Ferry House and Syon House 1805

D05602
Turner Bequest XC 72a

Pencil on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 150 x 258 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. This a view looking downstream, probably from a boat. Sion (or Syon) Ferry House, Turner’s Thames-side residence at this time, is on the left and Syon House in the middle distance. For Robert Mylne’s Pavilion see especially folio 3 of the sketchbook (D05494). Hill directs attention to ‘a Claudian version of the same view’ in the Wey, Guildford sketchbook (Tate D06195; Turner Bequest XCVIII 11), but the present sketch is from a slightly different angle and excludes the east end of All Saints’ Church on the left while extending further away from Syon House on the right. A watercolour of a similar view is in the Hesperides (1) sketchbook (Tate D05784; Turner Bequest XCIII 11) and a close-up view presumed to be Sion Ferry House comes from the dismembered Thames from Reading to Walton sketchbook (Tate D05952: Turner Bequest XCV 48).

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

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