'Goodrich Castle: Two Arches in the Solar, with the Valley of the Wye Beyond', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Goodrich Castle: Two Arches in the Solar, with the Valley of the Wye Beyond

From South Wales Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XXVI

Date 1795

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 264 x 203 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D00581

Turner Bequest XXVI 28

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 29 Recto:

Goodrich Castle: Two Arches in the Solar, with the Valley of the Wye Beyond 1795

D00581
Turner Bequest XXVI 28

Pencil on white wove paper, 264 x 203 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘BP’ within the drawing on far wall, left of centre
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 28’ bottom right

References

This sheet has been misbound. It should be placed between the present folios 55 recto and 56 recto (D00610, D00612; Turner Bequest XXVI 56, 58), where Finberg recorded XXVI 57 as ‘Missing’1 (see the concordance in the introduction to the sketchbook), D00610 being another drawing of Goodrich Castle. The grand thirteenth-century arches of the Solar are recorded by Turner as in a much better state of preservation than they are today.

Finberg 1909, I, p.52.

Verso:

Blank; inscribed by ?John Ruskin in pencil ‘19’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.