Oil paint on canvas
Berkshire
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Cliveden on Thames
Bequeathed by Mrs Elizabeth Vaughan 1885
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
Berkshire
boat, barge
Cliveden
cow
England
England, South East
England, Southern
figure
hill
landscape
natural phenomena
people
places
reflection
river
River Thames
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
village
water: inland
wooded
<p>Turner’s deliberately imprecise, atmospheric style was not universally admired. When fellow artist Benjamin West visited his studio in 1807, it is possible he saw this picture. The older artist reported being ‘disgusted with what he found there; views on the Thames, crude blotches, nothing could be more vicious’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2020</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
15 June 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-06-15
Pastoral Landscape
Collection based display
12 August 2009 – 26 July 2010
2010-07-26
12 August 2009 – 26 July 2010
2010-07-26
2009-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-12
Turner on the Thames
Collection based display
22 July 2013 – 28 June 2014
2014-06-28
22 July 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-07-22
Compton Verney (Compton Verney, UK)
5 October 2013 – 5 January 2014
2014-01-05
2013-10-05
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
1 March 2014 – 28 June 2014
2014-06-28
2014-03-01
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2013-07-22
Capturing British Landscape in the age of Turner and Constable
Loan-out
1 September 2020 – 20 November 2022
2022-11-20
1 September 2020
2020-09-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2020-09-01
Clore 103
Collection based display
Cliveden on Thames
support: 392 × 590 × 17 mm
frame: 512 × 712 × 62 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs Elizabeth Vaughan 1885
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<p>Turner’s deliberately imprecise, atmospheric style was not universally admired. When fellow artist Benjamin West visited his studio in 1807, it is possible he saw this picture. The older artist reported being ‘disgusted with what he found there; views on the Thames, crude blotches, nothing could be more vicious’.</p>
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<p><b>66. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-cliveden-on-thames-n01180" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01180</span></a>]<b> Cliveden on Thames</b> Exh. 1807?
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<br/>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (1180)
<br/>Canvas, 15 1/8 × 23 (38·5 × 58·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> ...; Mrs E. Vaughan, bequeathed 1885 to the National Gallery; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1912.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> ?Turner's gallery 1807; Tate Gallery 1931 (30).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Armstrong 1902, p. 220; Finberg 1961, pp. 134, 468 no. 107; Rothenstein and Butlin 1964, p. 26; Gage 1969, p. 38, pl. 41.</p>
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<p>Benjamin West visited Turner's gallery on 5 May 1807 and told Farington that he ‘was disgusted with what he found there; views on the Thames, crude blotches, nothing could be more vicious’. The Thames views shown in Turner's gallery the following year are known (see Nos. 70–73) and the relative immaturity of <i>Cliveden</i> supports Finberg's ‘guess’ that it was among the works shown in 1807. However, the frontality of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> and the still slightly conventional Titianesque sky suggest that it could be even earlier, nearer in date to the Petworth <i>Windsor Castle from the Thames</i> of <i>c.</i> 1805 (No. 149) and before the two pictures of Walton Bridges probably exhibited in 1806 and 1807 (Nos. 60 and 63). The nearest parallel is <i>Hurley House on the Thames</i> (No. 197, q.v.); c.f. also the still smaller <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panel</span></a> of <i>Newark Abbey</i> (No. 201).</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults animals: mammals architecture Berkshire boat, barge Cliveden cow England England, South East England, Southern figure hill landscape natural phenomena people places reflection river River Thames society townscapes / man-made features transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features village water: inland wooded