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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Basingstoke from Chapel Hill 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Basingstoke from Chapel Hill’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 248 Verso:
Basingstoke from Chapel Hill 1811
D08797
Turner Bequest CXXIII 245a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Basingstoke’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The viewpoint is Chapel Hill, near the ruins of the Holy Ghost Chapel, looking south to the centre of Basingstoke. The building shown in outline towards the right in the distance is St Michael’s Church with its squat tower and prominent pinnacles. The intervening space has since been overlaid by railway lines, a dual carriageway, car parks and tower blocks, but an 1840s print of Basingstoke from Chapel Hill after G.H. Shepherd (Hampshire Museums Service, Winchester) shows the view prior to these developments.
There is a close variation on folio 249 recto opposite (D08798; CXXIII 246); for other views, see under folio 244 recto (D08791; CXXIII 241).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Basingstoke from Chapel Hill 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-basingstoke-from-chapel-hill-r1137276, accessed 23 April 2024.