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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tabley House from the Moat, with the Water Tower 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tabley House from the Moat, with the Water Tower’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Tabley House from the Moat, with the Water Tower 1808
D06990
Turner Bequest CV 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Morning Mist arising’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CV. 7’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CV 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s visit to Tabley in 1808, see Introduction to the sketchbook. Continued on folio 8 verso (D07129) this drawing is related to Tabley, Cheshire, the Seat of Sir J.F. Leicester, Bart.: Calm Morning (Tate T03878; displayed at Petworth House).1 Here, Turner included the water tower which he omitted from drawings and an oil sketch in the Tabley No.1 sketchbook (Tate D06845–D06846, D06848; Turner Bequest CIII 15a–16, 18). In the present book, the tower also appears in the drawing (folio 20, D07002; Turner Bequest CV 17) used for the companion picture, Tabley, the Seat of Sir J.F. Leicester, Bart.: Windy Day (Tabley House Collection, University of Manchester)2 and on folios 10, 70 verso–71 (D06992, D07075–D07118; Turner Bequest CV 8, 62a–85a). Turner may at first have thought the structure unpicturesque and submitted a design for the ‘calm’ without it, which his patron rejected, asking for its inclusion.

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.70–1 no.99 (pl.107).
2
Ibid., p.70 no.98 (pl.106).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Tabley House from the Moat, with the Water Tower 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-tabley-house-from-the-moat-with-the-water-tower-r1134510, accessed 25 April 2024.