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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sandycome Lodge, Twickenham: The Undeveloped Site from the North c.1809-11

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sandycome Lodge, Twickenham: The Undeveloped Site from the North’ c.1809-11
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
Sandycome Lodge, Twickenham: The Undeveloped Site from the North circa 1809–11
D08061
Turner Bequest CXIV 75a
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, which continues across folio 76 recto opposite (D08062) is one of a series relating to Sandycombe Lodge, Turner’s self-designed Twickenham house (see the Introduction to the sketchbook), occupying most of the pages between folio 73 verso (D08057) and folio 86 verso (D08083), and apparently made working inwards from the back of the book. This relatively featureless site, with a slope on the right and trees in the dip on the left, is recognisably the Sandycombe plot by comparison with the ink rendering on folios 73 verso–74 recto (D08057, D08058), where a notional version of the house is shown at the head of the slope.
The subject of the present drawing has been recognised independently by Eric Shanes.1

Matthew Imms
January 2012

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Eric Shanes, draft text on Turner and Sandycombe in email to the author, 1 October 2011.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Sandycome Lodge, Twickenham: The Undeveloped Site from the North c.1809–11 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-sandycome-lodge-twickenham-the-undeveloped-site-from-the-r1134840, accessed 25 April 2024.