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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797 ... > Fonthill Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Eton from the Slough Road c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Eton from the Slough Road’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Eton from the Slough Road c.1799–1802
D02213
Turner Bequest XLVII 36
Pencil on white wove paper, 328 x 469 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘X’ towards bottom centre on bridge
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 36’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of two drawings of Eton from the Slough Road in this sketchbook; the other is D02212 (Turner Bequest XLVII 35). Here, with the page turned horizontally, the college buildings are indicated only in slight outline while a number of small buildings are shown in some detail across a field at the right.
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 2, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Eton from the Slough Road c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-eton-from-the-slough-road-r1174217, accessed 27 September 2024.