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This slight sketch looking west over the River Thames from Richmond Hill is a reprise of the one on folio 5 verso (
D18603), under other views in this sketchbook and related works are discussed. Here Turner seems to have made a note of someone carrying milk up the steep slope of Nightingale Lane or the hill itself.
The present drawing is among those which would have generally informed two watercolours:
Richmond Hill of about 1825 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight),
1 engraved in 1826 for the
Literary Souvenir (Tate impression:
T06132); and
Richmond Terrace, Surrey of about 1836 (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool),
2 engraved in 1838 for the
Picturesque Views in England and Wales (Tate impressions:
T04611,
T06128). The framing devices of a building on the left (The Wick) and trees in the foreground on the right are seen in the
England and Wales design.
Matthew Imms
December 2014
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