Joseph Mallord William Turner

?Syon House Seen through Trees

1805

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Studies for Pictures: Isleworth Sketchbook
Medium
Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 150 × 258 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05527
Turner Bequest XC 26

Catalogue entry

Although not suggested before, an identification as Syon seems plausible as this building has a similar long, flat front and corner towers. See also the view through trees on folio 12 (D05507) and another on folio 35 of the sketchbook (D05543). On the other hand, Hill suggests that a sketch on folio 27 verso (D40570) of a statue in a niche at the corner of a building shows the same ‘Italianate villa’.1
1
Hill 1993, p.161.
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David Blayney Brown
August 2007

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