Turner in Tottenham
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  • Home
    • 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      • Marine Views (unpublished series)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
    • Frederick Leighton
    • Thomas Girtin
  • BG Windus
    • The Library
    • Family & inheritance >
      • Ansley Windus
      • Thomas Windus
    • Landowner
    • Places >
      • All Hallows
      • Holy Trinity
      • Old Well, Tottenham Green
      • Tottenham High Cross
      • Rodmell, East Sussex
    • People >
      • EH Baily RA
      • John Constable
      • Rowland Hill
      • William Hobson >
        • Defence of the Realm
      • Luke Howard
      • Priscilla Wakefield
The collection in 1840
We last month noticed a gallery of modern paintings, of extent and value unequalled in Great Britain, and probably in the world: we have now to describe a collection of English drawings, to which the remark may as justly apply ... The drawings by Turner combine in large proportion of his best works; there are above two hundred of them, and not one of an inferior character.  Nearly all have been engraved - as illustrations of 'Cooke's Coast Scenery', the novels of Scott, Cadell's edition of the poems of Sir Walter - double interesting as copies of scenery pointed out to the painter by the poet, who travelled with him through all the places commemorated in the 'Lady of the Lake', 'Rokeby' &c.&c. Many of them have additions omitted in the prints, communicating the historical events to which the poetry bears reference and which are so conceived and executed as to give a new idea of the rich fancy of Mr Turner.
The Arts Union, No. 3, April, 1839
Most of the Turner paintings in the Windus collection were sold during the owner's lifetime.  Sadly BG Windus did not leave any bequests to public collections and his paintings are now scattered around the world in art galleries and private collections. 

For the sales of works from the Windus Collection conducted at Christie's click here
The photograph above shows the Library which BG Windus added to house his collection of paintings by JM W Turner.

According to Ruskin, Windus had a 'cheerful little villa, with low rooms on the ground floor opening pleasantly into each other, like a sort of grouped conservatory, between his front and back gardens; their walls beset, but not crowded , with Turner drawings of the England series'. 

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The collection is listed below with links to the various publications in which the paintings appeared.
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Hastings from the sea
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Lake Albano
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Saumur

In 1840 William Robinson listed many of the paintings in the Windus collection in his volume The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham:

1. A beautiful drawing of Hastings, from the Sea, intended /or a work under the auspices of John Fuller, Esq., of Rose Hill, Sussex, but not engraved
2 & 3. A Storm, and A Calm — very fine drawings; the latter engraved under the title of Margate — Sunrise — Whiting Fishing
4. Twilight — Folkestone — Smugglers creeping up. Spirits
5. Cologne — a very beautiful drawing, engraved by Odell
6. Florence
7. Lago Maggiore
8. Albano
9. Virginia Waters
10. Ditto,
11. Saumur, on the Loire
12. Nantes
13. Chateau of the Belle Gabrielle
14. Schaffhausen, on the Rhine

Picturesque Views of
England and Wales

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Okehampton
Thirty-six Drawings made for the work designated Turner’s England and Wales, among them the beautiful Drawings of Okehampton, Donstanborough Castle, Yarmouth, Buckfastleigh, Tamerton, Hampton Court, Exeter, Dartmouth, Kilgerran Castle, Aldborough, Carew Castle, Holy Island, Windsor Castle, Exeter, Dolbadem Castle, Saltash, Richmond Town (York) Fowey Harbour, Ditto (distant view) Malvern Abbey and Gate, Malmsbury Abbey, Folkestone, Cauldron Snout Fall, Stoneyhurst, Lancaster, Alnwick Castle, Lancaster Lands, Devonport, Salisbury, West Cowes,
England and Wales
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ADDENDUM:
Mr. Windus is still adding to his Turner-collection, whenever any choice specimen can be obtained. Windermere Lake,
Durham Cathedral, and Eaton [sic] College three very beautiful drawings, have been added since the previous account was printed.

From: The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex. William Robinson, 1840
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According to Ruskin writing in Praeterita, 
BG Windus owned the entire series of Turner's illustrations to
Scott, Byron, the South Coast and Finden's Bible,
which he kept in portfolio stands.

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From Praeterita by John Ruskin p205
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Picturesque Views of the
Southern Coast

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Lyme Regis
Twenty drawings, made for the Southern coast, engraved by George and William B. Cooke; among them the beautiful drawings of  The Lands End, Lyme Regis, Teignmouth, Pendennis Castle, Weymouth, Minehead, Brighton, Margate, Lulworth Castle, & Cove, Dover, from the Heights,
Southern Coast
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Byron's Works

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Eighteen vignettes for
​Byron’s Works, very fine.
Byron's Works

Sir Walter Scott and other publications

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Sir Walter Scott's birthplace
Sixty seven drawings made for Cadel’s edition of the Works and Life of Sir Walter Scott, a most beautiful and interesting series
Sir Walter Scott
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Finden's Bible

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Twenty very beautiful drawings, made for Finden’s Landscape Illustrations to the Bible – an interesting series.
Finden's Bible
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The Epicurean

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Four vignettes for Moore’s prose
Poem of The Epicurean.
The Epicurean

The Keepsake

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Florence
Beautiful drawings, engraved on a very small scale, for the Annual called the Keepsake.
The Keepsake
And -

a Beautiful drawing of The Great Hall at Cassiobury, the seat of Lord Essex

A very fine and early drawing of the artist of Cattle in the yard of an old castle, date 1801.

Both untraced



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