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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Windsor and Eton Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Lake and Temples at Stourhead c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Lake and Temples at Stourhead’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
The Lake and Temples at Stourhead circa 1808
D06112
Turner Bequest XCVII 40
Pencil on white wove paper, 107 x 182 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘40’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCVII 40’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 39 verso (D06111), a variant of the same composition, for Ian Warrell’s identification of the subject as Stourhead and the probability that Turner was in contact with the owner of the estate, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in North Wales and Tabley, Cheshire, in summer 1808. The present sketch seems to be an early idea for the watercolour Rise of the River Stour at Stourhead perhaps made about 1817 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825 (Sudeley Castle Trustees).1 Conceivably the watercolour was suggested in 1808 and rough ideas sketched from memory.
1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.356 no.496 reproduced.
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David Blayney Brown
September 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Lake and Temples at Stourhead c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-lake-and-temples-at-stourhead-r1130293, accessed 24 September 2024.