Royal Academy Exhibition Lists
Lists provided below:
Notes:
1) In 1797 one of Turner's works was hung in the great room then moved to the Anti-Room following a dispute with Sir F Bourgeois RA. Since both the Turner and the Bourgeois had a rightful place in the Great Room they must have been oils. This is evidence that the Anti-Room was hung with oils.
2) For 1792 and 1793 it has been possible to adduce the layout of the Anti-Room.
3) Two of JMW Turner's exhibits of 1793 are not named in this list. These are the titles that are studied in this investigation. The entries show that one of these titles was exhibited in the Anti-Room ant the other in the Library.
4) Other than entries relating to notes 1) to 3) above the information in these lists has been extracted directly from the exhibition catalogues.
JMW Turner's RA Exhibition Exhibits and Locations 1787 - 1799
1787
There are references in the literature to an exhibit ('Dover Castle') in 1787. There was an exhibit by a 'W Turner' for that year but it was a different W Turner. There were no JMW Turner exhibits until the first in 1790.
Turner was aged 13 in '88 (conventional reckoning) (19 by Miller)
1788
None
1789
None
1790
Exhibition Room Of Sculptures And Drawings:
644 View Of The Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth (in exhibitors he is
shown as T Turner but his address is correct)
1791
Exhibition Room Of Sculptures And Drawings:
494 King John's palace, Eltham
560 Sweakley, near Uxbridge, the seat of the Rev. Mr. Clarke
1792
Antique Room:
436 Malmsbury Abbey
472 The Pantheon, The Morning After The Fire
Turner was aged 18 in 1793
1793
Anti-Room
263 ................Subject of study
Library:
316 Gate of St. Augustine's monastery, Canterbury
323 ................Subject of study
1794
Antique Academy:
333 Second fall of the Monach, Devil's Bridge, Cardiganshire
336 Porch Of Great Malvern Abbey, Worcestershire
388 Christ Church Gate, Canterbury
402 Inside Of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire
408 St. Anselm's chapel, with part of Thomas a-Becket's crown,
Canterbury Cathedral
1795
Antique Academy
411 St. Hugh's, The Burgundian's porch at Lincoln Cathedral
Council Room:
581 Marford Mill, Wrexham, Denbighshire
585 West entrance of Peterborough cathedral
589 Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire
593 Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury
609 View near the Devil's bridge, with the river Ryddol,
Cardiganshire
616 A view in King's College, Oxford
621 Cathedral church at Lincoln
1796
Anti Room:
305 Fishermen At Sea [TATE Size: 36" x 48"]
Antique Academy:
369 Close Gate, Salisbury
395 St. Erasmus in Bishop Islip's Chapel
Council Room:
651 Woolverhampton, Staffordshire
656 Landilo Bridge and Dinevor Castle
686 Internal of a cottage, a study at Ely
699 Chale Farm, Isle of Wight
701 Landaff Cathedral, South Wales
702 Remains of Waltham Abbey, Essex
711 Trancept and Choir of Ely Minster
715 West front of Bath Abbey
1797
136 Moonlight, A Study At Millbank [TATE panel,
Size: 12" x 16"]
279 Fishermen Coming A Shore At Sun Set, Previous To A Gale [LOST
(Mildmay) Size: 36" x 48"]
The catalogue shows this picture at 279 but the index (list of
exhibitors) shows it at 344 (Graves puts it at 279 and a mistake in the
index)
Anti-Room:
344 Fishermen Coming A Shore At Sun Set, Previous To A Gale [LOST
(Mildmay) Size: 36" x 48"]
In the index (list of exhibitors). Another explanation is that
Turner's picture was at 279 (in the Great Room) but it was swapped with a
picture by Sir F Bourgeois RA) actually placing the Turner at 344; but
another reading might be that the Bourgeois was initially hung at 279 and
was moved to the Anti-Room at 344 (where he had a lanscape at 299)
Council Room:
427 Trancept Of Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire
450 Choir Of Salisbury Cathedral
464 Ely Cathedral, South Trancept
517 North Porch Of Salisbury Cathedral
1798
118 Winesdale, Yorkshire, An Autumnal Morning [LOST
Size: unknown]
196 Morning Amongst The Coniston Fells, Cumberland [TATE
Size: 48" x 35"]
Anti-Room:
322 Dunstanburgh Castle, N.E. Coast of Northumberland, Sun-rise After
A Squally Night [NGM Size: 36" x 49"]
Council Room:
346 Refectory Of Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire
353 Norham Castle On The Tweed, Summer's Morn
404 Holy Island Cathedral, Northumberland
408 Ambleside Mill, Westmoreland
435 The Dormitory And Transcept Of Fountain's Abbey. - Evening
Antique Academy:
527 Buttermere Lake, With Part Of Cromackwater, Cumberland, A Shower
[TATE Sixe: 36" x 48"]
640 A Study In September Of The Fern House, Mr. Lock's Park,
Mickleham, Surry [?]
1799
55 Fishermen becalmed previous to a storm, twilight [LOST
Size: B&J 15" x 20"; Calcott 15" x 30"]
192 Harleck Castle, from Twgwyn ferry, summer's evening twilight [YALE
Size: 34" x 47"]
Anti-Room:
275 Battle of the Nile, at 10 o'clock when the L'Orient blew up, from
the station of the gun boats between the battery and castle of Aboukir
[LOST Size: according to Finberg 1910 'Large'; in
Farebrother's catalogue 13th July 1882, 46½"x 70"]
305 Kilgarran castle on the Twyvey, hazy sunrise, previous to a
sultry day. [NT Size: 36" x 48"]
Council Room:
325 Sunny morning - the cattle by S.Gilpin, R.A.
326 Abergavenny bridge, Monmouthshire, clearing up after a showery
day
327 Inside of the chapter-house of Salisbury cathedral
335 West front of Salisbury cathedral
340 Caernarvon castle
356 Morning, from Dr. Langhorne's Visions of Fancy
434 Warkworth Castle, Northumberland - thunder storm approaching at
sun-set
Somerset House Exhibition Rooms and Exhibit Numbers 1788 - 1799
1788
1 - 272
Miniatures, &c. In The Great Room
273 - 367
Anti-Room
368 - 446
Exhibition-Room Of Sculptures And Drawings
447 - 656
1789
1 - 277
Miniatures, &c. In The Great Room
278 - 353
Anti-Room
354 - 428
Exhibition Room Of Sculptures And Drawings
429 - 619 (616-619 in manuscript)
1790
1 - 292
Miniatures, &c. In The Great Room
293 - 383
Anti-Room
384 - 473
Exhibition Room Of Sculptures And Drawings
474 - 703
1791
1 - 276
Miniatures, &c. In The Great Room
277 - 368
Anti-Room
369 - 466
Exhibition Room Of Sculptures And Drawings
447 - 672
1792
1 - 230
Miniatures, &c. In The Great Room
231 - 310
Anti-Room [62 pictures]
311 - 372
Known Layout:
East Wall (Right) 311-318 [8] South Wall 319-335 [17] West Wall
(Left) 336-339 [4] West Wall (Right) 340-343 [4] North Wall 344-364 [21]
East Wall (Left) 365-372 [8]
Library
373 - 393
Antique Room
394 - 543
Exhibition Room Of Sculptures and Drawings
544 - 747
Miniatures, &c.;
748 - 780
1793
1 - 236
Anti-Room [64 pictures]
237 - 300
Approximate Layout:
East Wall (Right) 237-244 [8] South Wall 245-262 [18] West all (Left)
263-265 [3] West Wall (Right) 266-268 [3] North Wall 269-292 [24] East
Wall (Left) 293-300 [8]
Library
301 - 345
Miniatures, &c. In The Library
346 - 491
Antique Room
492 - 641
Council Room
642 - 677
Model Academy
678 - 856
1794
1 - 236
Anti Room
237 - 318
Antique Academy
319 - 440
Miniatures
441 - 555
Model Academy
556 - 672 (671 & 672 in manuscript)
1795
1 - 252
Anti Room
253 - 314
Antique Academy
315 - 439
Miniatures
440 - 571
Council Room
572 - 640
Model Academy
641 - 735
1796
1 - 289
Anti Room
290 - 356
Antique Academy
357 - 519
Miniatures
520 - 648
Council Room
649 - 722
Library
723 only
Model Academy
724 - 886 (886 in manuscript)
1797
1 - 289
Anti Room
290 - 365
Council Room
366 - 528
Antique Academy
529 - 737
Library
738 - 842
Miniatures
843 - 1055
Model Academy
1056 - 1195 (1195 in manuscript)
1798
1 - 258
Anti-Room
259 - 329
Council Room
330 - 483
Antique Academy
484 - 651
Library
652 - 761
Miniatures
762 - 912
Model Academy
913 - 1054
1799
1 - 254
Anti-Room (page 11)
255 - 317
Council Room (page 14)
318 - 528
Antique Academy (page 21)
529 - 681
Miniatures (page 26)
682 - 825
Library (page 30)
826 - 894
Model Academy
895 - 1118