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 from the North 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Highgate Archway from the North’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 226 Verso:
The Highgate Archway from the North 1813
D09378
Turner Bequest CXXXI 137a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, as with the more distant sketch on folio 225 verso (D09376; Turner Bequest CXXXI 136a), the viewpoint appears to be the then open countryside east of the Great North Road, looking south to the new Highgate Archway with Highgate rising to the right.
The drawings between folios 218 verso and 227 verso (D09362–D09380; Turner Bequest CXXXI 129a–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 folio 128 verso (D09360; Turner Bequest CXXXI 128a), 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 from the North 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-from-the-north-r1148108, accessed 26 April 2024.