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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Guy's Cliffe House, on the River Avon near Warwick 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Guy's Cliffe House, on the River Avon near Warwick’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Guy’s Cliffe House, on the River Avon near Warwick 1830
D22375
Turner Bequest CCXL 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
Partial watermark ‘Gat | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 29’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbooks foliation, this is a continuation of the view of Guy’s Cliffe House near Warwick from across the River Avon on folio 28 verso opposite (D22374), under which the house and other views are discussed.
The subject was tentatively and incorrectly identified as ‘Ashridge?’ (a castellated country house near Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire) by A.J. Finberg (died 1939) and the watercolour and Turner scholar C.F. Bell (died 1966) in undated manuscript notes in copies of Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1 Its correct identification was noted by Dr Bernard Richards as part of unpublished Turner research informed by local knowledge.2

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
A.J. Finberg, undated MS notes in a copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.II, p.739; C.F. Bell, undated MS notes in another copy at the same location, vol.II, p.739.
2
Conversation with the author, 14 May 2013.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Guy’s Cliffe House, on the River Avon near Warwick 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, 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-guys-cliffe-house-on-the-river-avon-near-warwick-r1148525, accessed 22 September 2024.