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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Wey, Guildford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, from the South-East 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, from the South-East’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 110 Verso:
St Catherine’s Hill, near Guildford, from the South-East 1805
D06306
Turner Bequest XCVIII 110a
Pencil on white laid paper, 117 x 182 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In a pencil annotation to a copy of Finberg in Tate’s Library, Edward Croft-Murray deleted the ‘Possibly’ from Finberg’s tentative identification of St Catherine’s Hill, since confirmed by Hill. This is one of a sequence of views of the hill from different angles in this sketchbook, beginning with one of the same aspect from further away on folio 118 verso (D06322) if Turner was working backwards through the book. The ‘ruins on top’ are those of St Catherine’s Chapel.

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘St Catherine’s Hill, near Guildford, from the South-East 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-st-catherines-hill-near-guildford-from-the-south-east-r1130490, accessed 19 September 2024.