Object number1864.1.221

Sandy Knowe and Smailholme Tower

Date1838

Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)

CultureEnglish

MediumWatercolor

DimensionsFramed: 15 3/4 x 15 in. (40.01 x 38.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (24.13 x 22.23 cm)

Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedNot signed or dated

BibliographyLandscapes of Retrospection (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1999), p.35 repr.SECONDARY REFERENCES: James Wynne, "Rev. Magoon's Library," Private Libraries of New York, New York, 1860, pp. 310-311; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, A Catalogue of the Art Collection Presented by Matthew Vassar to Vassar College, June 28, 1864, New York, 1869, no. 295, p. 52; Oliver S. Tonks, "Early English Watercolors in the Vassar College Collection," Art in America, Oct. 1917, p. 309; J. T. Fotheringham, "Some Ruskin Letters," Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies, 1926, p. 234; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College Art Gallery Catalogue, 1939, p. 48; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1967, p. 52; Adele M. Holcomb, "Turner and Scott," in Journal of Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 34, 1971, p. 391; Adele M. Holcomb, in Proceedings, University of Edinburgh, School of Scottish Studies, 1971 (pagination and title not recorded in file); Linda Ferber, "William Trost Richards (1833-1905): American Landscape and Marine Painter" (Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1979) (pagination not recorded in file); Andrew Wilton, J. M. W. Turner: his art and life, Secaucus, N.J., 1979, no. 1140, p. 435; Gerald Finley, Landscapes of Memory, Turner as Illustrator to Scott (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), fig. 99 and pp. 216-217; Brian Lukacher, "Britton's Conquest:: Creating an Antiquarian Nation, 1790-1860," Landscapes of Retrospection: The Magoon Collection of British Drawings and Prints 1739-1860, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, 1999, pp. 23-24, 30, 35. 1869 Catalog, #295; 1939 Catalog, p. 48ProvenanceCollections: Elias Magoon. Purchased, from John Ruskin by E. L. Magoon; Sir Walter Scott
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Landscapes of Retrospection," October 15 - December 19, 1999;

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, January 25 - March 25, 2001;

The Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 9 - September 2, 2001;

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 9 - April 7, 2002 (see below)

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