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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Haddon Hall: The South Front; ?the Stables at Chatsworth House ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Haddon Hall: The South Front; ?the Stables at Chatsworth House’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Haddon Hall: The South Front; ?the Stables at Chatsworth House ?1831
D22200
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
Partial watermark ‘nard | 20’
Inscribe by Turner in pencil ‘3 [...]’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 28’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Ian Warrell has noted, the main view, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is of the South Front of Haddon Hall,1 facing south-east over the formal gardens with the chapel at the far end; this continues a little across folio 27 verso (D22199). There is a similar view on the verso (D22201). At the top left relative to this subject and drawn with the page turned vertically is a slight study of a façade with a tower, which may be a small church, or possibly the stable block at nearby Chatsworth House, with its central clock tower; for other views of the latter see under folio 43 verso (D22231).
At the bottom right, upside down in relation to the main view, is a loose study, apparently of walls and trees, which may show an aspect of Haddon Hall; for other views see under folio 24 recto (D22192).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Ian Warrell, notes from 1993 and later in Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Haddon Hall: The South Front; ?the Stables at Chatsworth House ?1831 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-haddon-hall-the-south-front-the-stables-at-chatsworth-house-r1148846, accessed 24 April 2024.