Mortlake Terrace: Turner’s Companion Pieces Reunited

Painting of pastoral estate by a river lined with trees.

At a Glance

Exhibition
Mortlake Terrace: Turner’s Companion Pieces Reunited
Dates
October 8, 1996 to May 11, 1997
Museum
The Frick Collection

1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021

Listing type
Past Exhibitions
Description

On loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Joseph Mallord William Turner's Mortlake Terrace, Summer’s Evening of 1827 hung for six months beside its companion piece, The Frick Collection's Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning , executed a year earlier. Both were painted for William Moffatt and depict The Limes, Moffatt's home overlooking the Thames at Mortlake, near Kew Gardens to the west of central London.