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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Slopes near the Highgate Archway, with London and St Paul's Cathedral in the Distance 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Slopes near the Highgate Archway, with London and St Paul's Cathedral in the Distance’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 219 Recto:
Slopes near the Highgate Archway, with London and St Paul’s Cathedral in the Distance 1813
D09363
Turner Bequest CXXXI 130
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Watermark ‘Ivy’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘130’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 130’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the new Highgate Archway itself is not shown here, but the viewpoint is probably on the Hornsey side of the cutting it spanned, with the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral and surrounding London spires lightly indicated on the horizon towards the left.
The drawings between folios 218 verso opposite and 227 verso (D09362–D09380; Turner Bequest CXXXI 129a–138a) are all identified or likely Highgate views; they were probably made working in from the back of the book as now foliated. The subject is discussed under folio 128 verso (D09360; Turner Bequest CXXXI 128a), apparently incorrectly isolated from the rest of the sequence by a block of blank leaves.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Slopes near the Highgate Archway, with London and St Paul’s Cathedral in the Distance 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-slopes-near-the-highgate-archway-with-london-and-st-pauls-r1148093, accessed 23 September 2024.