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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses below Richmond Hill c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses below Richmond Hill’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Verso:
Houses below Richmond Hill circa 1816–19
D10553
Turner Bequest CXL 72a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Elder’ within image lower left of centre and ‘R Creeper’ within image lower right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See notes to folio 78 verso of the sketchbook (D10549; Turner Bequest CXL 70a) for a run of sketches associated by Eric Shanes with Turner’s watercolour Richmond Terrace, Surrey (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) )1 engraved by J.T. Willmore in 1836 for Picturesque Views in England and Wales, but surely earlier and related to other Richmond subjects as well. Here, Turner shows various houses among trees, probably around Petersham and seen from somewhere on Nightingale Lane. For another drawing of a house among trees nearby see folio 76 verso (D10545; Turner Bequest CXL 68a).
There are splashes of oil or varnish on this leaf.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.403 no.879.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Houses below 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-houses-below-richmond-hill-r1131547, accessed 19 September 2024.