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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Wick and Nightingale Lane, Richmond Hill c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Wick and Nightingale Lane, Richmond Hill’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
The Wick and Nightingale Lane, Richmond Hill circa 1816–19
D10566
Turner Bequest CXL 79
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘79’ top left, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXL 79’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a rather more detailed version of the view on folio 86 verso of the sketchbook (D10565; Turner Bequest 78a), extended slightly on the left to include Wick House, the slightly larger house that had belonged to the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, as Turner was well aware. Butlin and Joll cite this drawing along with others running to folio 90 (D10572; Turner Bequest CXL 82) as similar in general terms to the composition of England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent’s Birthday (Tate N00502)1 exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819. The picture shows much the same view as Reynolds had enjoyed from Wick House.
Finberg states that this drawing is inscribed by Turner ‘Star and Garter’ (thus indicating the hotel on the top of Richmond Hill near the entrance to the park) but no such note is visible.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

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Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.106–7 no.140 (pl.145).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Wick and Nightingale Lane, Richmond Hill c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-the-wick-and-nightingale-lane-richmond-hill-r1131560, accessed 26 April 2024.