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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Porticoed Mansion 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Porticoed Mansion’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
A Porticoed Mansion 1816
D10980
Turner Bequest CXLIV 61
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Inscribed, possibly John Ruskin, in blue ink bled-out in red ‘61’ top left, running vertically (see main catalogue entry)
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 61’, top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg suggested that the building recorded in this sketch might be Harewood House, near Leeds, but this house is quite distinct. Given the proximity to Middleham subjects in the sketchbook, it seems possible that it will prove identifiable with a subject in that area, or somewhere on Turner’s route to Richmond and subsequent return to Farnley via Knaresborough. The same house appears (presumably) in the following double-page spread, verso and folio 62 (D10981–D10982).
See Introduction and Technical notes to this sketchbook for the change of ink colour, apparently from blue to red, in the numbering of this page.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Porticoed Mansion 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-porticoed-mansion-r1144169, accessed 25 April 2024.