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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Anne's Hill, near Chertsey: A Classical Statue and Architectural Details c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Anne's Hill, near Chertsey: A Classical Statue and Architectural Details’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
St Anne’s Hill, near Chertsey: A Classical Statue and Architectural Details c.1827
D20590
Turner Bequest CCXXV 26v
Pencil on white wove paper, 222 x 116 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘969’ top left, descending vertically and ‘229’ in circle bottom left, descending vertically
Inscribed in pencil ‘20[?3]’ centre right, descending vertically (partly erased)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page is not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1 It comprises studies of a statue and architectural details, made with the page turned vertically, relating to adjacent drawings of Charles James Fox’s garden and villa at St Anne’s Hill, near Chertsey in Surrey. The detail of the Ionic capital and entablature towards the top left is probably from Fox’s garden Temple of Friendship, which is seen in full towards the bottom right, and behind the house in views on the recto and folio 27 recto opposite (D20589, D20591); foliage from the latter drawing is continued a little way across the gutter here. For more on Fox, St Anne’s Hill and Samuel Rogers, who commissioned illustrations of the house and garden for his Poems, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
August 2014

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.695.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St Anne’s Hill, near Chertsey: A Classical Statue and Architectural Details c.1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-st-annes-hill-near-chertsey-a-classical-statue-and-r1172998, accessed 24 September 2024.