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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cassiobury: North-West View of the House 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cassiobury: North-West View of the House’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cassiobury: North-West View of the House 1807
D02218
Turner Bequest XLVII 41
Pencil on white wove paper, 330 x 469 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 41’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. A finished watercolour (private collection)1 was based on it, or possibly, as Finberg surmised,2 on a slightly different version of it. It was made for the Earl of Essex, and engraved for the History and Description of Cassiobury Park, 1816 (Tate impression: T04841). For Essex’s commission, see under D02235 (Turner Bequest XLVII 58).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.320 no.191, reproduced.
2
See Finberg 1909, I, p.122.
Technical notes:
The sheet is extremely discoloured. For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 52, see the Introduction.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cassiobury: North-West View of the House 1807 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-cassiobury-north-west-view-of-the-house-r1174270, accessed 23 April 2024.