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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Winchelsea from the South-East, near the Royal Military Canal c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Winchelsea from the South-East, near the Royal Military Canal’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
Winchelsea from the South-East, near the Royal Military Canal circa 1816–19
D10507
Turner Bequest CXL 50a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s suggestion that this sketch represents Winchelsea is surely right; the view must be from near the Royal Military Canal below the town to the south-east. Folio 62 verso of this sketchbook (D10517; Turner Bequest CXL 55a) has a different view of Winchelsea from the Royal Military Road (built 1804–9) from Rye, which Turner used for a watercolour in which he included the canal (private collection).1 As discussed under D10517, this watercolour is fictitious in its depiction of the canal and the present sketch, while very slight, may give a truer picture of its relationship to the town on its hill.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.348 no.430.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Winchelsea from the South-East, near the Royal Military Canal c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, 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-winchelsea-from-the-south-east-near-the-royal-military-canal-r1131500, accessed 25 April 2024.