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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chatsworth House: The West Front; the Stables and Belvedere; the Entrance to the Stables, with a Detail ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chatsworth House: The West Front; the Stables and Belvedere; the Entrance to the Stables, with a Detail’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Chatsworth House: The West Front; the Stables and Belvedere; the Entrance to the Stables, with a Detail ?1831
D22232
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 44
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Doric’ towards top left, ascending vertically, and ‘4’ above arch right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘44’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 44’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view along the top, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is a continuation of the main view on folio 43 verso opposite (D22231), where the main block of Chatsworth House is shown from the north-west. Here the low wing running north from the house is seen, terminating in the turreted belvedere, above the stepped wall of the raised gardens, with the tower of the stable block in the distance to the east. Towards the outer edge, with the page turned vertically, Turner has drawn the stables and belvedere from closer up, with the arches and lodges of the entrance screen on this side of the tall belvedere. Turner has noted the columns flanking the central arch as ‘Doric’. Below the main view is the western elevation of the stable block, and to its right a detail of the central and right-hand arches of the entrance screen, marked ‘4’ above the main arch, apparently to indicate the four triglyphs in the Doric frieze.
For other views of Chatsworth, see under D22231.
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Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Chatsworth House: The West Front; the Stables and Belvedere; the Entrance to the Stables, with a Detail ?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-chatsworth-house-the-west-front-the-stables-and-belvedere-r1148878, accessed 26 April 2024.