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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The House and Garden at 'The Limes', Mortlake, with Architectural Details ?1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The House and Garden at 'The Limes', Mortlake, with Architectural Details’ ?1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
The House and Garden at ‘The Limes’, Mortlake, with Architectural Details ?1825
D18775
Turner Bequest CCXIII 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘16 [...]’ top left, ‘4 [?Trigl]’ centre left, ‘Chimney’ top right, ‘4 [?trigliphs a...]’ centre right, and B[...] E[...]’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘45’ bottom right (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CCXIII – 45’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing relates to the painting The Seat of William Moffatt Esq., at Mortlake. Early (Summer’s) Morning, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826 (Frick Collection, New York).1 The most direct source is the sketch on folio 11 recto (D18725). Although the core of the house survives, the west front shown here was later extended outwards, and the garden built over. An overall elevation of the house is surrounded by various annotated details. Like the more conventional study on folio 44 recto (D18773), it perhaps suggests a return visit to the garden of ‘The Limes’ in the autumn or winter of 1825–6, when the house was less obscured by the foliage of neighbouring trees.
For more on the house, the paintings and related studies, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.144–5 no.235, pl.236 (colour).

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The House and Garden at ‘The Limes’, Mortlake, with Architectural Details ?1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-house-and-garden-at-the-limes-mortlake-with-r1172897, accessed 16 April 2024.