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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hampton Court Palace; A Thames Barge c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hampton Court Palace; A Thames Barge’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Verso:
Hampton Court Palace; A Thames Barge c.1827
D20802
Turner Bequest CCXXVII 42a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 185 mm
Partial watermark ‘nsell | 17’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Much of this page is difficult to make out, being obscured by the rubbing and offsetting recorded below in the technical notes, but there are thee bands of sketches. The upper two show aspects of Hampton Court Palace, looking north across the River Thames, and would have informed Turner’s watercolour Hampton Court Palace of about 1827 (private collection),1 engraved in 1829 for the Picturesque Views in England and Wales (Tate impression: T04550), as noted by Jan Piggott.2 The crooked form of the willow tree at the top left makes an appearance in the finished design. For other studies at and around Hampton Court in this sketchbook, see under folio 2 verso (D20736).
At the bottom left a Thames barge is shown under sail, while the slight sketch at the bottom right may show riverside buildings.
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.395 no.812.
2
See Piggott 2006, p.9.
Technical notes:
The pencil work has been heavily rubbed and offset to and from the paste-down inside the back cover opposite (D41006).

Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Hampton Court Palace; A Thames Barge c.1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hampton-court-palace-a-thames-barge-r1182662, accessed 20 September 2024.