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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Mansion on a Hill circa 1809-11

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Mansion on a Hill’ circa 1809-11
Folio 35 Recto:
A Mansion on a Hill circa 1809–11
D07645
Turner Bequest CXI 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 110 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘35’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXI 35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued on folio 34 verso of the sketchbook (D07644). Turner shows a three-storey Georgian house on a hill or ridge. The house is not yet identified.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Mansion on a Hill c.1809–11’, catalogue entry, May 2011, 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/a-mansion-on-a-hill-r1131132, accessed 23 September 2024.