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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View from Richmond Hill c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View from Richmond Hill’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
View from Richmond Hill circa 1816–19
D10561
Turner Bequest CXL 76a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
 
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 concentrates mainly on the far horizon as seen from Richmond Hill, giving only brief indications of the wooded Thames valley below.

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, ‘View 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-view-from-richmond-hill-r1131555, accessed 25 April 2024.