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 South 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, from the South’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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St Catherine’s Hill, near Guildford, from the South 1805
D06322
Turner Bequest XCVIII 118a
Pencil on white laid paper, 117 x 182 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Edward Croft-Murray, in pencil annotations to a copy of Finberg in Tate’s Library, was the first to recognise this as St Catherine’s Hill. Butlin and Joll note that it is the same subject as the oil sketch St Catherine’s Hill, Guildford (Tate N02676).1 The viewpoint from the lock on the Wey Navigation, found as Turner approached from Godalming, is described by Hill.

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

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Butlin and Joll 1984, p.122 no.187 (pl.187).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘St Catherine’s Hill, near Guildford, from the South 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-r1130506, accessed 26 April 2024.