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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Whittington, Shropshire: The Castle Gatehouse 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Whittington, Shropshire: The Castle Gatehouse’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Whittington, Shropshire: The Castle Gatehouse 1794
D00377
Turner Bequest XXIII C
Pencil on white wove paper, 146 x 218 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Withington’ top right
Inscribed in red ink ‘XXIII.C’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXIII – C’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sheet is half of a larger one, having originally been joined to Tate D00378 (Turner Bequest XXIII D), which has a drawing of the same building. There are several towns and villages in the West Midlands named Withington and the identification of this subject is uncertain, but it may be the castle gatehouse at Whittington, near Bridgnorth, which this building somewhat resembles, although the structure today has been ‘improved’ with gothic windows and machicolation.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Whittington, Shropshire: The Castle Gatehouse 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-whittington-shropshire-the-castle-gatehouse-r1141051, accessed 18 September 2024.