J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Wey, Guildford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Windsor Castle: North Terrace, and Entrance to the State Apartments 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windsor Castle: North Terrace, and Entrance to the State Apartments’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 126 Verso:
Windsor Castle: North Terrace, and Entrance to the State Apartments 1805
D06338
Turner Bequest XCVIII 126a
Pencil on white laid paper, 182 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. Identifying the subject, Hill reproduces this as if continued to the left across folios 127 verso–128 and then folio 125 verso and its own recto (D06340–D06341, D06337) to form a continuous panorama from the North Terrace. This configuration is impossible in reality, and moreover the horizon line is not the same throughout.

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Windsor Castle: North Terrace, and Entrance to the State Apartments 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-windsor-castle-north-terrace-and-entrance-to-the-state-r1130522, accessed 23 April 2024.