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J. M W. TURNER, R.A. (1775 - 1851) MORTLAKE TERRACE, EARLY SUMMER MORNING (The Seat of William Moffatt, Esq.) Canvas, 48 1/2 inches by 36 1/2 inches

View looking down the River Thames from the garden of a house which occupies the right of the picture; tree in front of the house; other trees on the terrace to the left. To the right of center a wheelbarrow, beyond a man with a scythe, and farther to right a boy with rake. To the left, against the low wall, two men standing. The house is at present the offices of the Mortlake Urban District Council. The painting, made in 1820, is mentioned in Armstrong's work on Turner, pp. 118 and 119, where is given the opinion of Bürger as follows: "This is one of the pictures I regard as a masterpiece, and which I should choose to convey to me the genius of Turner, absolutely without any influence of the Old Masters. Claude, the supreme 'illuminateur,' never did anything so prodigious." Mentioned also in Armstrong's work on Turner, p. 225. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1826. Exhibited at the Burlington House, 1872 and 1895. Exhibited at the Guild Hall, 1899. Exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1910. Exhibited at the Old Master's Exhibition, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1912. Collection of S. Mendel, Esq. Collection of James Price, Esq. Collection of Stephen G. Holland, Esq., London. Turner painted this subject a second time, and astonished his critics by cutting a dog out of black paper and sticking it on his canvas. 135 DN