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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Lot 6
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ID 990588
Lot 6 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Cassiobury, Hertfordshire, seen from the North-West

pencil and watercolour, with scratching out on paper

18 1/2 x 27 5/8 in. (47 x 60.2 cms)





Provenance

George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839), and by descent to his illegitimate daughter,

Harriet (1808-1837), and by inheritance to her husband,

Richard Ford (d.1858), Heavitree, Devon, by 1839.

William Quilter, by 1873; Christie’s, London, 9 April 1875, lot 244, as ‘Cashiobury’ (415 gns. to Agnew).

Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow; (†) Christie’s, London, 18 June 1892, lot 143, as ‘Cassiobury’ (330 gns. to Agnew).

Charles Morland Agnew, 20 February 1894, by whom bequeathed to,

Commandant Kenneth Morland Agnew, by whom bequeathed to,

Vice-Admiral Sir William Agnew.

with Agnew's, London, 12 February 1979, on behalf of the following,

William Keighley.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 24 February 1987, lot 21 ($187,000).

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 8 July 1997, lot 44, when acquired by the present owner.



Literature

G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, II, p. 223ff.

W. Armstrong, Turner, London, 1902, p. 245, repr. facing p. 54.

A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London, 1909, I, p. 122, under XLVII p. 41.

A.J. Finberg, Turner’s Sketches and Drawings, 1910, pl. XV.

W.G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, II, 1913, pp. 212, 398, no. 820.

A.J. Finberg, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Oxford, 1939 and 1961 (revised edition), p. 149.

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg and London, 1979, p. 320, no. 191.

J. Gage, Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner, Oxford, 1980, pp. 253 and 256.

D. Setford, ‘A Noble Patron’, The Antique Collector, 8 August 1985, pp. 42-7.

D. Setford, ‘No cold and Tame Imitations – Turner at Cassiobury House, Hertfordshire’, Country Life, 3 October 1985, pp. 956-7.

A. Wilton, Turner in his Time, New York and London, 1987, p. 86.

'News and Sales Record', in Turner Studies, Summer 1987, Vol. 7, N° 1, p. 64.

E. Shanes, Turner's Human Landscape, London, 1990, fig. 166, pp. 265, 266 and 343.

J.R. Piggott, Salerooms Report in Turner Society News, no. 77, December 1997, p. 3.

I. Warrell, ‘Petworth Revisited: Turner’s Paintings for the Carved Room and his other Country House Subjects, in C. Rowell, I. Warrell and D.B. Brown, Turner at Petworth, 2002, p. 48, fig. 39.

K. Nichols, ‘Turner’s Use of Graphite Underdrawing in his Watercolour Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire’, Master Drawings, winter 2002, 40, no. 4, pp. 299-304.

P. Rabbitts and S. K. Priestley, Cassiobury – The Ancient Seat of the Earls of Essex, 2014, pp. 73-77; aquatint of this work reproduced p. 10.

A. Wilton, catalogue entries about the pencil sketches of Cassiobury in the Turner Bequest, Tate online catalogue, published April 2015.

E. Shanes, Young Mr Turner. The First Forty Years, 1775-1815, New Haven and London, 2016, p. 299 and fn. 46.



Exhibited

Possibly London, Turner’s Gallery, 1808.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, Winter 1873, no. 398.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, including a Collection of Water Colours, Winter 1908, no. 223.

London, Agnew’s, Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, April-May 1913, no. 35.

London, Agnew’s, Exhibition of the Early English School, March 1919, no. 16.

London, Agnew’s, 106th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, January-February 1979, no. 94.



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