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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Cassiobury Park, from across Fields c.1807-10

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Cassiobury Park, from across Fields’ c.1807-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
?Cassiobury Park, from across Fields circa 1807–10
D05373
Turner Bequest LXXXVI 17a
Pencil on white wove paper, 258 x 370 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVI 17a’ top right (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A very slight, in some parts almost imperceptible, sketch, drawn with the sketchbook inverted. A large building with numerous chimneys fields can be seen across fields through a thin screen of trees. This appears to be Cassiobury, from the same angle as in the separate composition study (Tate D08217; Turner Bequest CXX D) and the unfinished painting Cassiobury Park; Reaping (Tate N04663).1 Views of Cassiobury related to this composition also appear in the River sketchbook (Tate D06017, D06042–D06044, D06046, D06048; Turner Bequest XCVI 46, 61a–62, 62a, 63a, 64a).

David Blayney Brown
December 2009

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.128 no.209a (pl.209).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Cassiobury Park, from across Fields c.1807–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cassiobury-park-from-across-fields-r1133604, accessed 22 November 2024.