Oil paint on oak
Hertfordshire
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Cassiobury Park Reaping
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
agriculture and fishing
architecture
Cassiobury Park
corn
country house
England
England, East
England, Southern
field
figure
harvesting
Hertfordshire
hill
landscape
people
places
plants and flowers
residential
river
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK man-made landmarks
water: inland
wooded
work and occupations
<p>This rural setting is the Cassiobury estate, on the River Gade just outside Watford in Hertfordshire. Its house, seen on the horizon, was demolished in 1927. Men and women are shown reaping by hand; a sickle lies near one of the resting figures on the left. Cassiobury was the home of the Earl of Essex, for whom this unfinished painting was probably intended along with its companion piece, the <i>Harvest Home</i>. As such the imagery of man and nature is more harmonious and timeless than the potentially troubled scene of the turnip harvest near Windsor shown nearby.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint oak
18 June 2001 – 14 July 2002
2002-07-14
18 June 2001 – 14 July 2002
2002-07-14
2001-06-18
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-06-18
From Studio to Gallery: Sketches in the Turner Bequest
Collection based display
8 July 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-07-08
Turner and Tourism in Britain
Collection based display
19 August 2009 – 27 July 2010
2010-07-27
19 August 2009 – 27 July 2010
2010-07-27
2009-08-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-19
Landscape and Nation: Turner's Britain
Collection based display
Cassiobury Park: Reaping
support: 902 × 1219 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
<p>This rural setting is the Cassiobury estate, on the River Gade just outside Watford in Hertfordshire. Its house, seen on the horizon, was demolished in 1927. Men and women are shown reaping by hand; a sickle lies near one of the resting figures on the left. Cassiobury was the home of the Earl of Essex, for whom this unfinished painting was probably intended along with its companion piece, the <i>Harvest Home</i>. As such the imagery of man and nature is more harmonious and timeless than the potentially troubled scene of the turnip harvest near Windsor shown nearby.  
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2010-02-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>209a. </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-cassiobury-park-reaping-n04663" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04663</span></a>]<b> Cassiobury Park: Reaping</b> <i>c.</i> 1809</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (4663)</p>
<p>Oak, 35 7/16 × 48 (90 × 122)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1938.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> R.A. 1974–5 (147).</p>
<p>Very similar to the large Thames sketches (Nos. 160–76) but painted on wood instead of <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/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a>, this has hitherto been entitled ‘Windsor Forest: Reaping’ and dated c. 1807 and was catalogued in our first edition as No. 202; the building in the background had been variously identified as Windsor Castle and the Cranbourne Tower in Windsor Great Park. However, David Hill has identified the scene as Cassiobury Park near Watford, the home of George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757–1859). 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> sketch in the British Museum (CXX-D) is a companion to that for <i>Harvest Home</i> (No. 209 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-harvest-home-n00562" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00562</span></a>]) and, as David Hill points out, the two pictures seem to have been intended as a pair on the theme of the harvest. Other sketches for this picture occur in the ‘Rivers’ sketchbook of <i>c.</i> 1807–8 (XCVI pp. 46, 61a–64a). (The compiler is greatly indebted to David Hill who, in a letter of 18 March 1984, gave him this new material on Nos. 209 [<span>N00562</span>] and 209a [<span>N04663</span>] and allowed him to publish it.)</p>
<p><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
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults agriculture and fishing architecture Cassiobury Park corn country house England England, East England, Southern field figure harvesting Hertfordshire hill landscape people places plants and flowers residential river UK counties UK countries and regions UK man-made landmarks water: inland wooded work and occupations