Oil paint on wood
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
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>
on Clapham Common
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
Clapham Common - non-specific
England
figure
fishing
garden structures
landscape
leisure and pastimes
park
path
people
places
pool
sport
townscapes / man-made features
UK countries and regions
UK London
water: inland
wooded
<p>This title was used for the first time after Turner’s death. Although there is little to link the view to a specific location, a Victorian newspaper report claimed to identify it as Clapham Common. By then, the pond had been filled in, leading to doubts on the accuracy of the location. Fishing was one of Turner’s favourite pastimes and appears in many of his paintings and watercolours.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2019</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
14 April 2012 – 8 March 2020
2020-03-08
14 April 2012 – 8 March 2020
2020-03-08
2012-04-14
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-04-14
Turner as a British Artist
Collection based display
View on Clapham Common
support: 321 × 445 mm
frame: 545 × 680 × 80 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 title was used for the first time after Turner’s death. Although there is little to link the view to a specific location, a Victorian newspaper report claimed to identify it as Clapham Common. By then, the pond had been filled in, leading to doubts on the accuracy of the location. Fishing was one of Turner’s favourite pastimes and appears in many of his paintings and watercolours.</p>
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<p><b>42.</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-view-on-clapham-common-n00468" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00468</span></a>]<b> View on Clapham Common</b> <i>c.</i>
1800–02
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<br/>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (468)
<br/>Mahogany, 12 5/8 × 17 7/16 (32 × 44·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (95, ‘Study of Trees’ 1'5" × 1'0"); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1910.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Amsterdam, Berne, Paris, Brussels, Liege (3), Venice and Rome (4), 1947–8 (repr.).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Ruskin 1857 (1903–12, xiii, pp. 103–4, 135, 142–3); Armstrong 1902, pp. 49, 220, repr. facing p. 46; MacColl 1920, p. 4; Davies 1946, p. 187; Herrmann 1963, p. 12, pl. 3; Wilton 1979, p. 256.</p>
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<p>Apparently painted partly when already framed, a strip  5/8 in. along the bottom edge being only roughly laid in. Ruskin however attributes this to the picture's having been left unfinished.
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<br/>The title and a dating of <i>c.</i> 1802 first appear in Ruskin's account of the Turners exhibited at Marlborough House in 1856. Much less Wilsonian than <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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of the late 1790s the painting yet lacks the freedom and atmosphere of the Thames oil sketches and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> of <i>c.</i> 1806–7 (see Nos. 160–94 and, e.g., the watercolour from the Turner Bequest, XCV-46, repr. exh. cat., B.M. 1975, p. 40 no. 34 and, in colour, Wilkinson 1974, p. 77). A closer parallel is <i>Chevening Park</i> painted in oil and gum on <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/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a>, one of the studies done when Turner was staying with W.F. Wells at Knockholt (No. 35g); Finberg dated these <i>c.</i> 1806 but for reasons for dating them <i>c.</i> 1801 see the introduction to Nos. 35a-f on pp. 25–7.</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
2004-09-22T00:00:00
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adults architecture Clapham Common - non-specific England figure fishing garden structures landscape leisure and pastimes park path people places pool sport townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London water: inland wooded