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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dudley Castle: The Southern Gateway with St Edmund's and St Thomas's Churches to the South-West 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dudley Castle: The Southern Gateway with St Edmund's and St Thomas's Churches to the South-West’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Dudley Castle: The Southern Gateway with St Edmund’s and St Thomas’s Churches to the South-West 1830
D22405
Turner Bequest CCXL 44
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘44’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 44’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As part of unpublished Turner research informed by local knowledge, Dr Bernard Richards confirmed this subject, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, as the tower of St Edmund’s Church and the Spire of St Thomas’s, seen from the ruins of Dudley Castle,1 looking south-west from below the barbican and keep; the southern gateway, in the centre here, is now lost. There is a more detailed treatment in the contemporary Kenilworth sketchbook (Tate D22111; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 70).
For other views of Dudley, see under folio 39 recto (D22395).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

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Conversation with the author, 14 May 2013.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dudley Castle: The Southern Gateway with St Edmund’s and St Thomas’s Churches to the South-West 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-dudley-castle-the-southern-gateway-with-st-edmunds-and-st-r1148555, accessed 19 April 2024.