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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hampton Court, Herefordshire: Part of the South Front 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hampton Court, Herefordshire: Part of the South Front’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Hampton Court, Herefordshire: Part of the South Front 1798
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Turner Bequest XL 78a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 135 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘15’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XL – 78 a’ bottom right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Earl of Essex commissioned substantial alterations to Hampton Court, Herefordshire, which were carried out in the early 1790s, possibly by James Wyatt who had worked for him at Cassiobury.1 Compare the more complete view in the contemporary Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01320; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 66), and for Essex see the Introduction to that book. A watercolour view of the house based on that drawing was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 27 January 2010 (105). The fact that this drawing records a detail of the architecture that was part of the 1790s remodelling may constitute evidence that the architect of the alterations was indeed Wyatt, since the relationship between Turner and Wyatt at this date seems to have been close.2

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See John Cornforth, ‘Hampton Court, Herefordshire’, Country Life, vol.153, 1 March 1973, p.521.
2
See Evelyn Joll, ‘Wyatt, James (1747–1813)’ in Joll, Martin Butlin and Luke Herrmann (eds.), The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 2001, p.389.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Hampton Court, Herefordshire: Part of the South Front 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-hampton-court-herefordshire-part-of-the-south-front-r1173834, accessed 16 April 2024.