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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cassiobury: The East Front of the House Seen from the North-East 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cassiobury: The East Front of the House Seen from the North-East’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cassiobury: The East Front of the House Seen from the North-East 1807
D02219
Turner Bequest XLVII 42
Pencil on white wove paper, 433 x 335 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram right of centre
Inscribed in red ink ‘42’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 42’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page vertically, this is a continuation to the right of the horizontal view on D02215 (Turner Bequest XLVII 38).
There are colour trials on the verso (D41467).
Technical notes:
The sheet was torn from the book at the left and folded vertically, perhaps to facilitate viewing alongside the main part of the view noted above. For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 56, see the Introduction.
Verso:
Blank apart from pink and blue paint trials.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cassiobury: The East Front of the House Seen from the North-East 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-the-east-front-of-the-house-seen-from-the-north-r1174274, accessed 26 April 2024.