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 from the North, near Romney Lock, with the Winchester Tower in the Centre, St George's Chapel to the Right, State Apartments to the Left, with the Round Tower Hidden by Trees 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windsor Castle from the North, near Romney Lock, with the Winchester Tower in the Centre, St George's Chapel to the Right, State Apartments to the Left, with the Round Tower Hidden by Trees’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 133 Verso:
Windsor Castle from the North, near Romney Lock, with the Winchester Tower in the Centre, St George's Chapel to the Right, State Apartments to the Left, with the Round Tower Hidden by Trees 1805
D06352
Turner Bequest XCVIII 133a
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, and continued to the left on folio 134 (D06353). The view is up-river, from near Romney Lock. Turner used it as the basis of Near the Thames Lock, Windsor (Tate T03877; displayed at Petworth House),1 exhibited at Turner’s Gallery, 1809, and bought by the Earl of Egremont. In the picture, the trees are reduced in height, the view closed off somewhat on the left, the Winchester Tower made more prominent and Eton scholars added to the foreground, bathing in the Thames and resting on its bank.

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.65–6 no.88 (pl.98).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Windsor Castle from the North, near Romney Lock, with the Winchester Tower in the Centre, St George's Chapel to the Right, State Apartments to the Left, with the Round Tower Hidden by Trees 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-from-the-north-near-romney-lock-with-the-r1130536, accessed 25 April 2024.