J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Richmond Hill c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Richmond Hill’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Verso:
Richmond Hill circa 1816–19
D10571
Turner Bequest CXL 81a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing, with hatched shading, is more a composition study than a sketch from nature. The trees and building on the left are also sketched on the facing folio 90 (D10572; Turner Bequest CXL 82). Butlin and Joll cite this drawing along with others running to folio 90 (D10572; Turner Bequest CXL 82) as similar in general terms to the composition of England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent’s Birthday (Tate N00502)1 exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

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Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.106–7 no.140 (pl.145).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Richmond Hill c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-richmond-hill-r1131565, accessed 25 April 2024.