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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chirk Castle: The Entrance Front 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chirk Castle: The Entrance Front’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Chirk Castle: The Entrance Front 1794
D00332
Turner Bequest XXI F
Pencil on white wove paper, 140 x 214 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Chirk Castle’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXI F’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made a slight sketch of one of the towers of Chirk Castle on the verso of this sheet (D40235). The late thirteenth-century structure, built by Roger Mortimer, was extended in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and slighted after the Civil War.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Chirk Castle: The Entrance Front 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-chirk-castle-the-entrance-front-r1141056, accessed 19 April 2024.