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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Eton College from the Slough Road c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Eton College from the Slough Road’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
View of Eton College from the Slough Road c.1799–1802
D02212
Turner Bequest XLVII 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 332 x 412 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest, George Jones, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake, in ink ‘No 210 Geo Jones’ and in pencil ‘JPK’ and ‘C.L.E.’ top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in ink ‘1. JR.’ top left
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 35’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study, made with the page turned horizontally, was used as the basis for an untraced watercolour of about 1802, Eton from the Slough Road,1 engraved in 1803 for William Byrne’s Britannia Depicta (Tate impression: T05941). D02213 (Turner Bequest XLVII 36) is another drawing of the school, from slightly farther off on the Slough Road.
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.334 no.308.
Technical notes:
Finberg noted: ‘The endorsement being on this page probably indicates that it was the first page of the book before dismemberment.’1 For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 1, see the Introduction.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.122.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View of Eton College from the Slough Road c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-view-of-eton-college-from-the-slough-road-r1174216, accessed 20 April 2024.