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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Thames from Richmond Hill c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Thames from Richmond Hill’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
The River Thames from Richmond Hill circa 1816–19
D10545
Turner Bequest CXL 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As in adjacent sketches in the sketchbook in its present foliation, the subject is surely the Thames from Richmond Hill. The river is visible on the left. Compare especially the right portion of the watercolour of Richmond Hill (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight)1 engraved by Edward Goodall in 1826 for The Literary Souvenir but probably originally intended for Picturesque Views in England and Wales. The watercolour includes the two groups of trees and building with chimneys drawn here.
For another drawing of houses among trees below Richmond hill see folio 80 verso (D10553; Turner Bequest CXL 72a).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.359 no.518.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The River Thames from 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-the-river-thames-from-richmond-hill-r1131539, accessed 26 April 2024.