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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hampton Court Palace from the Thames, Seen from the South 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hampton Court Palace from the Thames, Seen from the South’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
Hampton Court Palace from the Thames, Seen from the South 1805
D05545
Turner Bequest XC 36
Pen and ink on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 150 x 258 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘36’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XC 36’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Hill observes, this view of Hampton Court is almost the same as Turner painted in a contemporary oil sketch (Tate N02693),1 looking up Albany Reach from the Thames Ditton side of the Thames, near the entrance to the River Mole. The oil is one of a group always thought to have been painted from nature, although in this instance the drawing might have served as its basis. For a view of Hampton Court from upstream, see folio 37 (D05547).

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.117 no.164 (pl.164).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Hampton Court Palace from the Thames, Seen from the South 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-hampton-court-palace-from-the-thames-seen-from-the-south-r1129858, accessed 26 April 2024.