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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burghley House from the North-West 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burghley House from the North-West’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Recto:
Burghley House from the North-West 1797
D00996
Turner Bequest XXXIV 85
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV 85’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally. David Hill surmises that Turner visited the interior of Burghley House and admired the collection of Old Master paintings there, though there is no record of such a visit in the book, apart from this drawing of the two principal façades of this, one of the most elaborate of the Elizabethan ‘prodigy houses’, which stands near Stamford, Lincolnshire; see folio 91 recto (D00997; Turner Bequest XXXIV 86).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Burghley House from the North-West 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-burghley-house-from-the-north-west-r1150154, accessed 26 April 2024.