Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hampton Court, Herefordshire, from the North-East

1798

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Hereford Court Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 229 × 332 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D01321
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 67

Catalogue entry

Turner had made a watercolour of Hampton Court in this aspect for his 1795 set (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester);1 its composition closely resembles that of this drawing. No study of the same view exists in the South Wales sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XXVI), and it has been supposed that Turner took the Hereford Court book with him on his tour to South Wales in 1795, though this seems highly unlikely; see the sketchbook’s Introduction.
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.319 no.182, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Earl of Essex’; spots of grey-blue colour; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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