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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Sandycombe Lodge c.1808-12 > Sandycombe and Yorkshire Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded Valley near Eridge Castle, Sussex c.1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Valley near Eridge Castle, Sussex’ c.1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Wooded Valley near Eridge Castle, Sussex circa 1810
D08989
Turner Bequest CXXVII 18a
Pencil on white wove paper, 126 x 202 mm
Part watermark ‘H Sa | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Eridge’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although Eridge Castle does not appear to be shown here, Turner’s inscription indicates that this scene is in its vicinity. There are drawings of the castle in this sketchbook, on D08991 and D08996 (CXXVII 19a, 22a), and the subject is discussed under the latter.
Technical notes:
This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with D08981 (CXXVII 13); the measurements given above are for the present work alone.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded Valley near Eridge Castle, Sussex c.1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-a-wooded-valley-near-eridge-castle-sussex-r1134700, accessed 16 April 2024.