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拍品专文
Turner visited the Isle of Wight in August - September 1795 and made a number of sketches in what is known as the Isle of Wight Sketchbook, including one for this watercolour inscribed 'Chale Farm' (Tate Gallery PB XXIV-28, illustrated J.S. Dearden, Turner's Isle of Wight Sketchbook, 1979, pl. 12, together with a photograph of the Old Barn at Chale Farm, pl. 13).
A list of 'Order'd Drawings' inside the front cover of the Isle of Wight Sketchbook includes seven commissioned by 'Mr. Landseer', presumably the engraver John Landseer, who later, in about 1799, made five unfinished engravings of a different selection of Isle of Wight subjects. The list includes 'Chale Farm', to be of 'Second size', apparently 8½ x 6½ in., more or less the size of our drawing (see A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London, 1909, vol. I, p. 41). Chale is situated in the south of the Isle of Wight, about five miles west of Ventnor. Chale Farm, now known as Chale Abbey, incorporates the remains of a 14th century hall, presumably the reason for John Landseer's interest.
The present drawing was untraced until its publication by Selby Whittingham in 1986.
A list of 'Order'd Drawings' inside the front cover of the Isle of Wight Sketchbook includes seven commissioned by 'Mr. Landseer', presumably the engraver John Landseer, who later, in about 1799, made five unfinished engravings of a different selection of Isle of Wight subjects. The list includes 'Chale Farm', to be of 'Second size', apparently 8½ x 6½ in., more or less the size of our drawing (see A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London, 1909, vol. I, p. 41). Chale is situated in the south of the Isle of Wight, about five miles west of Ventnor. Chale Farm, now known as Chale Abbey, incorporates the remains of a 14th century hall, presumably the reason for John Landseer's interest.
The present drawing was untraced until its publication by Selby Whittingham in 1986.