Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.

The Field of Waterloo seen from Hougoumont

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July 5, 10:16 AM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.

London 1775 - 1851

The Field of Waterloo seen from Hougoumont


Watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour and scratching out

191 by 260 mm

J. Whittacker,
by whom sold to Agnew's, London, 22 March 1864,
by whom sold to John Edward Taylor (1830-1905), 31 March 1864
with Agnew's, London, 1867,
by whom sold to Sam Mendel, Manchester (1811-1884), 1868, 
sale, London, Christie’s, 12 February 1872, lot 125,
with Agnew's, London,
by whom sold to T. MacLean, 30 May 1872,
sale, London, Christie's, 22 March 1873, lot 40, bt Tooth,
with Arthur Tooth, London, 
by whom sold to Adrien de Murietta, Marquis de Santurce,
his sale, London, Christie's, 16 June 1883, lot 124,
Dallas O. Greig,
sale, London, Christie's, 28 April 1890, lot 56, as 'La Haye Sainte'; 
Sir Charles Butt (1830-1892),
sale, London, Robinson-Fisher’s [?], 1 July 1892, lot 217, as 'La Haye Sainte'; 
T. Richardson Searles, Massachusetts,
Benjamin Allen Rowland, Massachusetts, (1910-1991),
sale, London, Christie's, 30 June 1981, lot 100;
Alan Flacks, New York,
his executor's sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 9 May 2013, lot 63,
where acquired by the present owner 
W.G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London 1913, vol. II, p. 254, no. 425;
A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p. 447, no. 1229;
A.G.H. Bachrach, "The Field of Waterloo and Beyond," Turner Studies, vol. I, no. 2, 1981, p. 8, fig. 6;
R. Griffith Jones, 'Picture Notes, The Field of Waterloo from Hougoumont,' Turner Studies, vol. I, 1981, p. 54, no. 2;
J. Gage, E. Joll, A. Wilton et al, J.M.W. Turner, exh. cat., Paris, Grand Palais, 1983, p. 227, no. 223;
D. Blayney Brown, Turner and Byron, exh. cat., London, Tate Gallery, 1992, p. 114, no. 75;
J. Piggott, Turner's Vignettes, exh. cat., London, Tate Gallery, 1993, p. 58, 93, 99, no. 70;
A. Wilton, Turner as Draughtsman, London 2006, p. 101, fig. 6.4;
K. Lochnan, S. Taft, I. Warrell et al, Turner Whistler Monet, exh. cat., Tate and traveling, 2004, p. 84, no. 9, p. 85

Engraved: 

by Edward Finden for vol. XIV of The Life and Works of Lord Bryon, 1833 

Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, An Exhibition of Paintings by J. M. W. Turner, 1951, no. 51;
Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Turner in America, 1955, no. 21;
Paris, Grand Palais, J.M.W. Turner, 1983, no. 223;
Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art & Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Turner, 1986, no. 85;
London, Tate, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Paris, Grand Palais, Turner Whistler Monet, 2004-5, no. 9