J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Basingstoke from Chapel Hill 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Basingstoke from Chapel Hill’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 249 Recto:
Basingstoke from Chapel Hill 1811
D08798
Turner Bequest CXXIII 246
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘246’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXIII – 246’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As with the sketch on folio 248 verso opposite (D08797; CXXIII 245a), Turner’s viewpoint is Chapel Hill, near the ruins of the Holy Ghost Chapel, looking south to the centre of Basingstoke towards St Michael’s Church, the building on the horizon, with a low articulated block to the right of centre and a tower to the right of that. A railway, a dual carriageway, car parks and tower blocks now lie in between, but an 1840s print of Basingstoke from Chapel Hill after G.H. Shepherd (Hampshire Museums Service, Winchester) shows the undeveloped view from the same spot in the graveyard, looking across the roofs of cottages on Chapel Hill. The vertical forms in the foreground of Turner’s sketch seem to be the headstones shown in Shepherd’s print.
For other views made at the site, see under folio 244 recto (D08791; CXXIII 241).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Basingstoke from Chapel Hill 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-basingstoke-from-chapel-hill-r1137277, accessed 25 April 2024.