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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Hesperides (1) Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Thames at Isleworth with the Pavilion and Syon Ferry, from the Surrey Bank: Syon House in the Distance Beyond the Trees 1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Thames at Isleworth with the Pavilion and Syon Ferry, from the Surrey Bank: Syon House in the Distance Beyond the Trees’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
The Thames at Isleworth with the Pavilion and Syon Ferry, from the Surrey Bank: Syon House in the Distance Beyond the Trees 1805
D05784
Turner Bequest XCIII 11
Pen and ink and watercolour, with stopping and scratching out, on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 171 x 262 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a group of watercolour studies of Thames scenery that occupy some of the later folios of the sketchbook; see chiefly 38 verso (D05833) and Introduction to the book for comment. Listed by Finberg as folio 11, this leaf was restored to the book in its proper position as folio 41, the image now appearing on the verso. Blue wash from the sky extends on to folio 42 (D05839), which also shows offsets of green from the trees.
Hill adds to Finberg’s title, noting the presence of Robert Mylne’s Pavilion on the right, Syon House in the trees and the ferry on the river and comparing the pencil sketch of a similar view in the Studies for Pictures: Isleworth sketchbook (Tate D05602; Turner Bequest XC 72a).
The watercolour is faded from exposure.

David Blayney Brown
October 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Thames at Isleworth with the Pavilion and Syon Ferry, from the Surrey Bank: Syon House in the Distance Beyond the Trees 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2007, 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-the-thames-at-isleworth-with-the-pavilion-and-syon-ferry-r1130060, accessed 18 April 2024.