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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chepstow Castle: Martin's Tower 1792

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chepstow Castle: Martin's Tower’ 1792
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Chepstow Castle: Martin’s Tower 1792
D40034
Pencil on white wove paper, 191 x 274 mm
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN’
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In many respects this is a more developed drawing than that on the recto (D00130; Turner Bequest XII A). As Finberg notes, Turner made another view of Chepstow, unconnected with either of these sketches, for the Copper Plate Magazine, published 1 November 1794;1 it is now in the collection of the Courtauld Gallery, London.2
1
W[illiam] G[eorge] Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., vol.I, London 1908, pp.[lxxxvii], 2–3 no.2.
2
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.311 no.88, reproduced.
Technical notes:
The sheet is somewhat irregular, with the bottom edge curving down noticeably towards the right. A pencil line has been ruled down the page to the left of the subject.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Chepstow Castle: Martin’s Tower 1792 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-chepstow-castle-martins-tower-r1141114, accessed 25 April 2024.