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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of the Villa at St Anne's Hill, near Chertsey c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of the Villa at St Anne's Hill, near Chertsey’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Views of the Villa at St Anne’s Hill, near Chertsey c.1827
D20595
Turner Bequest CCXXV 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 222 x 116 mm
Inscribed in an unknown hand ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, Turner has made three studies of Charles James Fox’s villa at St Anne’s Hill, near Chertsey in Surrey. The house does not survive, but compare the drawings on folios 26 recto and 27 recto (D20589, D20591); the slight middle drawing here seems to show the veranda and projecting bay seen in those views from the opposite direction. 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

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Views of the Villa at St Anne’s Hill, near Chertsey 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-views-of-the-villa-at-st-annes-hill-near-chertsey-r1173003, accessed 21 September 2024.