Gouache, graphite and watercolour on paper
Drawings Connected with the Kent and Welsh Tours of 1798, and Other Works
Drawings Connected with the Kent and Welsh Tours of 1798, and Other Works
Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797-1807
Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797-1807
Berkshire
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Imaginary Landscape with Windsor Castle on a Cliff and a Distant Plain
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
Berkshire
boat, sailing
castle
cliff
England
England, South East
England, Southern
features
historical: imagined views
horse
house
landscape
man
military
pack animal
people
places
residential
river
River Teifi
road
society
spire
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
valley
Wales
water: inland
waterfront
Windsor Castle
Windsor, Windsor Castle
woman
wooded
<p>This imagined panorama stretches from a river valley to Windsor Castle and the Thames. The large central building might be a cotton-spinning mill like those built by Richard Arkwright at Cromford, Derbyshire. Arkwright’s mills were important sites of the Industrial Revolution. The watercolour presents a prosperous, industrious England. Made after the war with France began, it demonstrates the benefits of peace at a time of increasing hardship, shortages and social unrest. Despite its scale and finish, Turner did not exhibit it. He may have decided against risking an obvious political statement.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2022</em></p>
paper unique gouache graphite watercolour
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
17 October 2021 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2021-10-17
Turner's Modern World
Loan-out
Imaginary Landscape with Windsor Castle on a Cliff and a Distant Plain
support: 457 × 736 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<p>This imagined panorama stretches from a river valley to Windsor Castle and the Thames. The large central building might be a cotton-spinning mill like those built by Richard Arkwright at Cromford, Derbyshire. Arkwright’s mills were important sites of the Industrial Revolution. The watercolour presents a prosperous, industrious England. Made after the war with France began, it demonstrates the benefits of peace at a time of increasing hardship, shortages and social unrest. Despite its scale and finish, Turner did not exhibit it. He may have decided against risking an obvious political statement.</p>
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adults animals: mammals architecture Berkshire boat, sailing castle cliff England England, South East England, Southern features historical: imagined views horse house landscape man military pack animal people places residential river River Teifi road society spire townscapes / man-made features transport: land transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features valley Wales waterfront water: inland Windsor Castle Windsor, Windsor Castle woman wooded
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