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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chatsworth House from the North-West ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chatsworth House from the North-West’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Chatsworth House from the North-West ?1831
D22249
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 54
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Ba | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C[... | ...]’ centre right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘54’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 54’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject was identified as ‘Chatsworth’ by A.J. Finberg (died 1939) and the watercolour and Turner scholar C.F. Bell (died 1966) in undated manuscript notes in copies of Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1 The view is from the north-west, with the Tudor Hunting Tower above to the left. At the top right is a slight secondary sketch, perhaps continuing the view along the Derwent Valley to the right. For other views of Chatsworth, see under D22231.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

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A.J. Finberg, undated MS notes in a copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.II, p.735; C.F. Bell, undated MS notes in another copy at the same location, vol.II, p.735; confirmed by Ian Warrell in notes from 1993 and later in Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Chatsworth House from the North-West ?1831 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-chatsworth-house-from-the-north-west-r1148895, accessed 27 April 2024.