Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Highgate Archway, with Highgate Beyond

1813

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 95 × 157 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D09366
Turner Bequest CXXXI 131 a

Catalogue entry

With the page turned horizontally, on the right are the three upper arches and the flanking pillars of the new Highgate Archway, carrying Hornsey Lane west to Highgate beyond. The buildings now in the vicinity are of later dates, and the bridge was replaced in 1897. There is a similar, more detailed view on folio 219 verso (D09364; Turner Bequest CXXXI 130a).
The drawings between folios 218 verso and 227 verso (D09362–D09380; Turner Bequest CXXXI 129a–138a) are all identified or likely Highgate views; they were probably made working in from the back of the book as now foliated. The subject is discussed under folio 128 verso (D09360; Turner Bequest CXXXI 128a), apparently incorrectly isolated from the rest of the sequence by a block of blank leaves.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

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