'Herstmonceux Castle', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Herstmonceux Castle

From Views in Sussex Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXXVIII

Date 1810

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 200 x 311 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D10324

Turner Bequest CXXXVIII 5

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Herstmonceux Castle 1810

D10324
Turner Bequest CXXXVIII 5

Pencil on white wove paper, 200 x 311 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cattle’ and ‘8’ lower right of centre
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVIII 5’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

Perhaps a right-hand page of the sketchbook, as there are stitch holes on the left.

This view of the entrance front of Herstmonceux Castle was adopted for the watercolour made for John Fuller (private collection)1 and engraved (in open etching only) by William Bernard Cooke in 1820, and not published. It has been claimed that the watercolour is dated 1817 2 but as noted by Eric Shanes it is only signed and likely to be earlier, based on Turner’s visit in 1810. The watercolour follows the drawing quite closely but enlarges the castle. It includes the cattle noted here by Turner, but shows only four. For the castle, see notes to the drawings in the Herstmonceux and Pevensey sketchbook (especially Tate D05656; Turner Bequest XCI 39), perhaps made several years earlier.

The leaf listed separately by Finberg as ‘Page 6’ from this sketchbook is now combined with the present one.

Wilton 1979, p.348 no.429.

Ibid.

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
April 2011

Read this catalogue entry in full

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