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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Thames from Richmond Hill, Looking West 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Thames from Richmond Hill, Looking West’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
The Thames from Richmond Hill, Looking West 1805
D05523
Turner Bequest XC 23
Pen and ink on off-white wove paper, 150 x 258 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘23’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XC 23’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 22 of the sketchbook (D05522), another sketch seen through trees looking upstream over the Petersham meadows towards Marble Hill and Twickenham. A slight pencil memorandum of a tree or trees on folio 22 verso (D40569) may be related to this sketch or a continuation of it.
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David Blayney Brown
August 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘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-the-thames-from-richmond-hill-looking-west-r1129835, accessed 16 April 2024.