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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner West Front of Cowdray Castle, with the Stone Bridge 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘West Front of Cowdray Castle, with the Stone Bridge’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
West Front of Cowdray Castle, with the Stone Bridge 1809
D07517
Turner Bequest CIX 6
Pencil on white wove paper, 226 x 375 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Ruins of Cowdrey’ bottom right and ‘Water...’ below bridge at right
Stamped in black ‘CIX 6’ bottom right corner
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The great house at Cowdray, near Midhurst and a short ride from Petworth, was mainly built from 1520 and reduced to ruins by a fire in 1793. Turner made two other drawings in the same sketchbook, D07518 and D07519; Turner Bequest CIX 7, 8. Here, he is looking at the west front of the house with its gatehouse, and the bridge over the River Rother at right. For a sketchier view with the bridge to the left see the contemporary Frittlewell sketchbook (Tate D07845; Turner Bequest CXII 84a).
Verso:
Blank. Laid down.

David Blayney Brown
June 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘West Front of Cowdray Castle, with the Stone Bridge 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, 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-west-front-of-cowdray-castle-with-the-stone-bridge-r1135632, accessed 26 April 2024.