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

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Lot 36 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Hampton Court Palace

pencil and watercolour heightened with gum arabic and with scratching out on wove paper

11 1⁄4 x 15 7⁄8 in. (28.8 x 40.5 cm.)





Provenance

Commissioned by Charles Heath (1785-1848).

Thomas Griffith (1795-1868), by 1833.

Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790-1867), by 1839.

Edward Rodgett, of Darwen Bank, Preston, by 1857; his sale; Christie’s, 14 May 1859, lot 44 (160 gns. to Dixon).

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 15 March 1990, lot 96.

with Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 25 November 2004, lot 131.

Acquired by the present owners in 2012.



Literature

Art Union, April 1839, no. 3 (reprinted in Turner Studies, III, no. 2, winter 1984, pp. 55-7).

J. Ruskin, Modern Painters, London, 1843, part II, section II, chapter III, p. 175 (reprinted in E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, London, 1903, III, p. 308; see also, 1904, XIII, p.l, which transcribes a letter to his father, 23 January 1852, in which he listed Heidelberg among the works he would not wish to buy; (see also Bradley 1955⁄78).

W. Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London, 1862, II, p. 406, under ‘Collection of E. Rodgett, Esq., of Preston’.

Sir W. Armstrong, Turner, London, 1902, p. 256.

W.G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London, 1908, I, p. 134, no. 236.

J. L. Bradley, ed., Ruskin’s Letters from Venice 1851-2, New Haven, 1955⁄1978, p. 147-148.

E. Shanes, Turner’s Picturesque Views in England and Wales 1825-1838, London, 1979, p. 154, no. 102.

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London, 1979, p. 395, no. 812.

E. Shanes, ‘Picture Note: The Library at Tottenham, the Seat of B.G. Windus, showing his collection of Turner watercolours’, Turner Studies, III, no. 2, winter 1984, p. 56.

J. Gage, Collected Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner, Appendix II, p. 237, no. 13.

S. Whittington, ‘The Turner Collector: Benjamin Godfrey Windus’, Turner Studies, VII, no. 2, winter 1987, p. 34.

G. Norman, ‘Turner Watercolour Achieves Auction Record’, The Independent, 16 March 1990, p. 4.

E. Shanes, Turner’s England 1810-38, London, 1990, p. 274, no. 251.

Turner Studies, X, no. 1, 1990, reprinted on back cover.

E. Shanes, ed., ‘Sales’, Turner Studies, X, no. 2, 1990, p. 61.

C. Denison, E. Phimister and S. Wiles, Sketching at Home and Abroad; British Landscape Drawings, 1750-1850, New York, 1992, pp. 46-7, fig. 26.

D. Hill, Turner on the Thames, New Haven, 1993, pp. 153 and 155, fig. 206.

J.R. Piggott, ‘Salerooms Report’, Turner Society News, no. 102, March 2006, p. 9.



Exhibited

London, Piccadilly, The Egyptian Hall, June 1829, no. 13.

London, Moon Boys and Graves, June-July 1833, no.1 (lent by Griffith).

Manchester, Art Treasures, 1857, no. 344 (lent by Rodgett).

London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, English Drawings, October-November 1990, no. 54.

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Sketching at Home and Abroad, British Landscape Drawings, 1750-1850, 1992, no. 100.

Winona, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2012-2022, on long-term loan.



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