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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chatsworth House beyond the Bridge over the River Derwent, with Queen Mary's Bower ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chatsworth House beyond the Bridge over the River Derwent, with Queen Mary's Bower’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
Chatsworth House beyond the Bridge over the River Derwent, with Queen Mary’s Bower ?1831
D22251
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 55
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Bar | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?R... C...]’ top right and [?S... | ...]’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘55’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 55’ 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 At the top is a relatively precise study of the bridge over the River Derwent with Chatsworth House in rough outline beyond to the east, with a further small detail of the bridge’s stonework.
Below is a sequence of slight sketches indicating the house, the bridge and Queen Mary’s Bower, a stone platform which stands north of the bridge. The staircase on its south side is indicated on the right, and there is a detail of its balustrade, with its unusual top rail formed of arches rather than a continuous horizontal. 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; subject confirmed by Ian Warrell in notes from 1993 and later in Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Chatsworth House beyond the Bridge over the River Derwent, with Queen Mary’s Bower ?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-beyond-the-bridge-over-the-river-derwent-r1148897, accessed 25 April 2024.