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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond and the Five Arch Bridge in the Distance c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond and the Five Arch Bridge in the Distance’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Verso:
Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond and the Five Arch Bridge in the Distance c.1827
D22127
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 78a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this view north across Virginia Water to the Chinese Fishing Temple (now gone) continues on folio 81 recto opposite (D22128; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 79), where the Five Arch Bridge is shown to the west.
This is one among several adjacent sketches which informed the second of two Virginia Water watercolours of about 1829 (untraced),1 engraved for The Keepsake in 1830 (Tate impressions: T04616, T04617, T06140); the watercolour has a tighter composition, showing only the Fishing Temple and Johnson’s Pond leading off to its right.
For other views around Virginia Water, see under folio 73 verso (D22113; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 71a).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.359 no.520.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond and the Five Arch Bridge in the Distance c.1827 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-virginia-water-with-the-chinese-fishing-temple-beyond-and-r1148768, accessed 24 April 2024.