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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Views in Sussex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ashburnham Place 1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ashburnham Place’ 1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Ashburnham Place 1810
D10340
Turner Bequest CXXXVIII 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 201 x 325 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Probably a left-hand page from the sketchbook.
This drawing was used for the first of Turner’s two watercolours of Ashburnham Place, made for John Fuller in 1810 (University of Liverpool)1 and aquatinted by Joseph Stadler for Four Large Coloured Views in Sussex published circa 1818. See the Vale of Heathfield sketchbook (Tate D10311–D10313; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 68–69) for the origin of the later Vale of Ashburnham (British Museum, London).2
The Ashburnham estates adjoined Fuller’s which in this view lie in the far distance to the left. As well as Ashburnham Place, the view takes in Broad Water in the parkland in front of the house and St Peter’s Church to its left.
1
Wilton 1979, p.349 no.433.
2
Ibid., p.348 no.425.
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David Blayney Brown
April 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Ashburnham Place 1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ashburnham-place-r1131384, accessed 19 April 2024.