- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 476 × 718 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- N05541
Catalogue entry
195. [N05541] Windsor Park: Cows in a Woody Landscape c.
1805–7
THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5541)
Canvas mounted on pine, 18 3/4 × 28 1/4 (47·5 × 71·5)
Coll. Turner Bequest 1856 (49, ‘Windsor Park’ 2'3 3/4" × 1'6 1/2"; identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.
Lit. Davies 1946, pp. 167, 186.
Fairly close in size and subject to No. 196 [N04657], but the more frontal composition and apparently (allowing for the differences in condition between the two pictures) tamer handling suggest a slightly earlier date, closer to Cliveden on Thames, possibly exhibited in Turner's gallery in 1807 (No. 66 [N01180]). There seems to be no reason to disregard the title ‘Windsor Park’ given in the inventory of the Turner Bequest, which was presumably based on some evidence now lost.
The picture is very dirty and has suffered losses along the joins of the supporting panel.
Published in:
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984