Ploughing Up Turnips, near Slough ('Windsor')

Painting by J. M. W. Turner

Ploughing Up Turnips, near Slough ('Windsor')

Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1809
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape, genre painting
Dimensions	101.9 cm × 130.2 cm (40.1 in × 51.3 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London

Ploughing Up Turnips, near Slough ('Windsor') is an 1809 oil-on-canvas painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner combining elements of landscape art and genre painting. It depicts a view of Windsor in Berkshire, some miles west of London. Despite the presence of Windsor Castle and Eton College on the skyline, the focus is on the farm labourers harvesting turnips during the winter. The turnips were then used to fatten cattle.

The style echoes the work of Claude Lorraine, who Turner admired. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art's 1809 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House in London. Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been part of the Turner Bequest to the nation.

References

Reynolds p.155
Tate. "'Ploughing Up Turnips, near Slough ('Windsor')', Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1809". Tate. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
Broglio p.165
Cosgrove & Daniels p.107-8
Tate. "'Ploughing Up Turnips, near Slough ('Windsor')', Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1809". Tate. Retrieved 2024-12-29.

Bibliography

Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
Broglio, Ron. Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments, 1750-1830. Associated University Press, 2008.
Cosgrove, Denis & Daniels, Stephen. The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
Reynolds, Graham. Turner. Thames & Hudson, 2022.

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Paintings	Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800) Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800) Diana and Callisto (c. 1796) Fishermen at Sea (1796) Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797) Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797) Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797) Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798) Buttermere Lake (1798) Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798) Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798) Shipping by a Breakwater (1798) Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798) View of a Town (c. 1798) Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799) Self-Portrait (c. 1799) View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening (c. 1799–1800) Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799–1800) A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800) A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800) Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800) Calais Pier (1803) View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805) The Shipwreck (1805) Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807) View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808) The Garreteer's Petition (1809) London from Greenwich Park (1809) Ploughing Up Turnips (1809) The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810) High Street, Oxford (1810) Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811) Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812) Frosty Morning (1813) Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815) The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817) Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818) The Field of Waterloo (1818) England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday (1819) Rome, from the Vatican (1820) The Battle of Trafalgar (1822) The Bay of Baiae (1823) Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening (1826) Forum Romanum (1826) Mortlake Terrace (1826) Port Ruysdael (1826) Chichester Canal (1828) East Cowes Castle (1828) Regulus (1828) Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829) Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832) The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832) The Fountain of Indolence (1834) The Golden Bough (1834) Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835) Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835) The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838) Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839) Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840) Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840) Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842) The Blue Rigi (1842) The Red Rigi (1842) Peace – Burial at Sea (1842) War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842) Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (1843) Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844) Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845) Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845) Whalers (c. 1845) The Beacon Light (unknown)
Prints	Liber Studiorum (1807–1819)
Museums	Sandycombe Lodge
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