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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond c.1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso:
Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond c.1827
D22129
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 79a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation trees on the near side of Virginia Water from the view across to the Chinese Fishing Temple on folio 82 verso (D22131; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 80a).
For other views around Virginia Water, see under folio 73 verso (D22113; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 71a).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond c.1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, 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-virginia-water-with-the-chinese-fishing-temple-beyond-r1148770, accessed 20 September 2024.