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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View from a Street over a long Wall into a Park, with Distant Buildings: Snow 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View from a Street over a long Wall into a Park, with Distant Buildings: Snow’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
View from a Street over a long Wall into a Park, with Distant Buildings: Snow 1796–7
D01185
Turner Bequest XXXVII 68
Pencil and gouache on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 68’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 34 recto opposite (D01186; Turner Bequest XXXVII 69). The snow scene on folio 31 verso (D01181; Turner Bequest XXXVII 64) of this book is possibly a view at Lewisham; the other snow scenes are likely to have been made at the same time and perhaps in the same place. The British Museum curator Ann Forsdyke1 has suggested that the present drawing shows the road between Catford and Lewisham, with Lewisham Parish Church in the distance. The large building at the far right, however, seems to be a group of houses rather than a church.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

1
Personal correspondence with the author.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View from a Street over a long Wall into a Park, with Distant Buildings: Snow 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-from-a-street-over-a-long-wall-into-a-park-with-distant-r1149875, accessed 26 April 2024.