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 > Wey, Guildford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, from the North 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, from the North’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 115 Verso:
St Catherine’s Hill, near Guildford, from the North 1805
D06316
Turner Bequest XCVIII 115a
Pencil on white laid paper, 117 x 182 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view looks towards St Catherine’s Hill and Chapel from near the riverside meadows, approaching from Guildford. Another in the same direction from further away, near Guildford Mills, and made first if Turner was working his way backwards through the sketchbook, is on folio 116 verso (D06318). Hill notes of the present sketch that ‘a line denoting the reflection of the willow to the left tells us how calm the water was’.1

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

1
Hill 1993, p.79.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘St Catherine’s Hill, near Guildford, from the North 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-north-r1130500, accessed 19 September 2024.