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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Farnley Chest; Also a Landscape of Scene at Twickenham 1821

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Farnley Chest; Also a Landscape of Scene at Twickenham’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
The Farnley Chest; Also a Landscape of Scene at Twickenham 1821
D18589
Turner Bequest CCXI 41
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Boat [?]Anglers’ centre left, ‘[...] Boat’ on the thumbnail sketch at centre, and ‘Twickenham [?]P[ar]k | Brown Horn | Splashing the wat[er] | [?]Black on the Bank’ centre right
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 41’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Two diagrams of a chest (presumably front and back) are almost identical to the studies opposite on folio 40 verso (Tate D18588; Turner Bequest CCXI 40a). This item of furniture has been identified as a chest at Farnley Hall. See folio 6 (Tate D18533; Turner Bequest CCXI 6).
Between the two diagrams is a thumbnail landscape composition design labelled ‘Twickenham [?]P[ar]k | Brown Horn [cow] | Splashing the wat[er] | [?]Black [cow] on the Bank’. The design is in Turner’s typically Claudian mode with framing trees at the right, and a centrally positioned sun which is reflected in the water beneath. A ‘Boat’ with ‘Anglers’ is also noted. Sketches of boats on a river on folios 39 verso and 40 may be related (Tate D18586–D18587; Turner Bequest CCXI 39a–40).

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Farnley Chest; Also a Landscape of Scene at Twickenham 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-farnley-chest-also-a-landscape-of-scene-at-twickenham-r1146283, accessed 20 September 2024.