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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Highgate Archway, Looking towards London 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Highgate Archway, Looking towards London’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 218 Verso:
The Highgate Archway, Looking towards London 1813
D09362
Turner Bequest CXXXI 129a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Watermark ‘Mill | 812’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this is a slighter version of the view south London from the new Highgate Archway shown on folio 128 verso (D09360; Turner Bequest CXXXI 128a). The upper arches of the bridge carrying Hornsey Lane towards Highgate on the right are barely indicated in the present view.
The drawings between here and folio 227 verso (D09380; Turner Bequest CXXXI 138a) are all identified or likely Highgate views; they were probably made working in from the back of the book as now foliated. The subject is discussed under D09360, which is apparently incorrectly isolated from the rest of the sequence by a block of blank leaves.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Highgate Archway, Looking towards London 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-highgate-archway-looking-towards-london-r1148092, accessed 18 April 2024.