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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees: ?The Thames from Richmond Hill Looking West 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees: ?The Thames from Richmond Hill Looking West’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Trees: ?The Thames from Richmond Hill Looking West 1805
D40569
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
Not noticed or numbered by Finberg. Hill suggests that this very slight sketch continues a westward view from Richmond Hill, seen through trees, on folio 23 of the sketchbook (D05523). However it is in pencil whereas folio 23 is drawn in pen and ink.

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Trees: ?The Thames from Richmond Hill Looking West 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-trees-the-thames-from-richmond-hill-looking-west-r1129834, accessed 25 April 2024.