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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tabley House from the Moat, with the Water Tower; Study for 'Tabley, Cheshire, the Seat of Sir J.F. Leicester, Bart.: Windy Day' 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tabley House from the Moat, with the Water Tower; Study for 'Tabley, Cheshire, the Seat of Sir J.F. Leicester, Bart.: Windy Day'’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Tabley House from the Moat, with the Water Tower; Study for ‘Tabley, Cheshire, the Seat of Sir J.F. Leicester, Bart.: Windy Day’ 1808
D07002
Turner Bequest CV 17
Pen and ink on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s visit to Tabley in 1808, see Introduction to the sketchbook. This drawing, made entirely in ink, served as the basis for Tabley, Cheshire, the Seat of Sir J.F. Leicester, Bart.: Windy Day (Tabley House Collection, University of Manchester)1 painted for Sir John Leicester and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1809. As in other drawings in this sketchbook (see notes to folio 9, D06990; Turner Bequest CV 7) Turner included the water tower in the Moat that he had omitted from drawings and an oil sketch in the Tabley No.1 sketchbook ((Tate D06845–D06846, D06848; Turner Bequest CIII 15a–16, 18). Having probably at first thought it unpicturesque, he may have been instructed to include it by Sir John, who had had it built. Also present in drawing and picture are several of the yachts that Sir John kept for ‘aquatic parties’.
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Butlin and Joll 1984, p.70 no.98 (pl.106).
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David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Tabley House from the Moat, with the Water Tower; Study for ‘Tabley, Cheshire, the Seat of Sir J.F. Leicester, Bart.: Windy Day’ 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-tabley-house-from-the-moat-with-the-water-tower-study-for-r1134523, accessed 19 April 2024.