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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Catherine's Hill, Guildford Castle and Guildford Mills 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Catherine's Hill, Guildford Castle and Guildford Mills’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Verso:
St Catherine’s Hill, Guildford Castle and Guildford Mills 1807
D06611
Turner Bequest C 72a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘C 72a’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Guildford, see folios 52 verso and 53 of this sketchbook (D06572, D06573; Turner Bequest C 47a, 48). This sketch is from the High Street, looking towards St Catherine’s Hill, the castle and Guildford Mills below. Further views of St Catherine’s Hill are on folios 78 verso, 79 verso and 80 verso (D06613, D06615, D06617; Turner Bequest C 73a, 74a, 75a).

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘St Catherine’s Hill, Guildford Castle and Guildford Mills 1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2006, 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-st-catherines-hill-guildford-castle-and-guildford-mills-r1139145, accessed 18 April 2024.