Turner in Tottenham
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    • Background
    • John Ruskin & Windus Collection >
      • Two Turner Collectors; Friends of Ruskin
    • Visitors to the Collection
    • Auctions >
      • Christie's June 1842
      • Christie's June 1853
      • Christie's March 1859
      • Christie's July 1862
      • 1868 Sale after Windus death
    • Images and credits
    • Thanks
  • JMW Turner
    • The Windus Turner Collection >
      • Picturesque views >
        • England and Wales >
          • Charles Heath
          • Carisbrooke Castle
          • Richmond from the moors
          • Straits of Dover
        • Southern Coast >
          • Brighthelmston, Sussex
      • The Epicurean
      • Finden's Lord Byron
      • The Keepsake
      • Walter Scott >
        • Abbotsford
      • Later large watercolours
      • Marine Views (unpublished series)
    • Turner collection recreated >
      • Frames
      • Still framed?
      • The Windus Commissions
    • Turner oil paintings in the Collection >
      • Calais sands
      • The Tondos
      • Going to the ball
      • Later paintings
    • Letters to Windus
    • Turner Bequests: Henry Vaughan
    • Twickenham home
    • The Eccentric Mr Turner
    • Talks on Turner in Tottenham
  • PRB
    • Ford Madox Brown
    • Holman Hunt
    • Millais
    • Rossetti
    • Ruskin and the PRB
  • & Others
    • Blake
    • Thomas Girtin
  • BG Windus
    • Family & inheritance >
      • Ansley Windus
      • Thomas Windus
    • Landowner
    • Places >
      • All Hallows
      • Holy Trinity
      • Tottenham High Cross
      • Rodmell, East Sussex
    • People >
      • EH Baily RA
      • John Constable
      • Rowland Hill
      • William Hobson
      • Luke Howard
      • Priscilla Wakefield
  • About
    • Background
    • John Ruskin & Windus Collection >
      • Two Turner Collectors; Friends of Ruskin
    • Visitors to the Collection
    • Auctions >
      • Christie's June 1842
      • Christie's June 1853
      • Christie's March 1859
      • Christie's July 1862
      • 1868 Sale after Windus death
    • Images and credits
    • Thanks
  • JMW Turner
    • The Windus Turner Collection >
      • Picturesque views >
        • England and Wales >
          • Charles Heath
          • Carisbrooke Castle
          • Richmond from the moors
          • Straits of Dover
        • Southern Coast >
          • Brighthelmston, Sussex
      • The Epicurean
      • Finden's Lord Byron
      • The Keepsake
      • Walter Scott >
        • Abbotsford
      • Later large watercolours
      • Marine Views (unpublished series)
    • Turner collection recreated >
      • Frames
      • Still framed?
      • The Windus Commissions
    • Turner oil paintings in the Collection >
      • Calais sands
      • The Tondos
      • Going to the ball
      • Later paintings
    • Letters to Windus
    • Turner Bequests: Henry Vaughan
    • Twickenham home
    • The Eccentric Mr Turner
    • Talks on Turner in Tottenham
  • PRB
    • Ford Madox Brown
    • Holman Hunt
    • Millais
    • Rossetti
    • Ruskin and the PRB
  • & Others
    • Blake
    • Thomas Girtin
  • BG Windus
    • Family & inheritance >
      • Ansley Windus
      • Thomas Windus
    • Landowner
    • Places >
      • All Hallows
      • Holy Trinity
      • Tottenham High Cross
      • Rodmell, East Sussex
    • People >
      • EH Baily RA
      • John Constable
      • Rowland Hill
      • William Hobson
      • Luke Howard
      • Priscilla Wakefield
Catalogue of
Five magnificent pictures
by JMW Turner RA

The property of Benjamin Godfrey Windus Esq
of Tottenham
which have for many Years excited the admiration of the numerous
Visitors who have been so liberally admitted to View Mr WINDUS’s Collection:


These five superlative Works of the Great Master, TURNER,
will be Sold with the valuable Copyright,
being admirably adapted for Engraving.
The Pictures are in the finest state.
20 June 1853


Venice - Evening: Going to the Ball - “Fallacies of Hope” MS
exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1846 No 117
 








Morning: Returning from the Ball - S. Martino - “Fallacies of Hope”
exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1846 No 162
 








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Dawn of Christianity: Flight into Egypt 
“That star has risen” Rev T Gisborne’s Works in a Forest.
exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1841 No 532
 









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Glaucus and Scylla 
“Ovid’s Metamorphoses” - painted on panel.
exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1841 No 542
 










The approach to Venice 
"The path lies o’er the sea"
"The moon is up, and yet it is not night:
The sun as yet disputes the day with her
" Byron
Described by Ruskin in Modern Painters Vol i as
‘One of the most beautiful bits of colour ever done by any man, by any means, at any time”
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