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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Highgate Archway, with Highgate Beyond 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Highgate Archway, with Highgate Beyond’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 220 Verso:
The Highgate Archway, with Highgate Beyond 1813
D09366
Turner Bequest CXXXI 131a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Watermark ‘Ivy’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, on the right are the three upper arches and the flanking pillars of the new Highgate Archway, carrying Hornsey Lane west to Highgate beyond. The buildings now in the vicinity are of later dates, and the bridge was replaced in 1897. There is a similar, more detailed view on folio 219 verso (D09364; Turner Bequest CXXXI 130a).
The drawings between folios 218 verso 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, ‘The Highgate Archway, with Highgate Beyond 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-the-highgate-archway-with-highgate-beyond-r1148096, accessed 23 April 2024.