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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dudley: The Castle, Priory and Priory Hall 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dudley: The Castle, Priory and Priory Hall’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Dudley: The Castle, Priory and Priory Hall 1830
D22429
Turner Bequest CCXL 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘56’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 56’ 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As part of unpublished Turner research informed by local knowledge, Dr Bernard Richards confirmed this as a Dudley subject.1 Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the drawing continues on folio 55 verso opposite (D22428). Looking south, Dudley Castle is seen from the wooded slopes now occupied by Dudley Zoo; Dudley’s Priory Hall is on the other page, with the ruins of the adjacent priory loosely indicated across the gutter in between. There are variations of this view on folios 54 verso–55 recto and the verso of the present leaf (D22426, D22427, D22430).
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: The Castle, Priory and Priory Hall 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-the-castle-priory-and-priory-hall-r1148579, accessed 20 September 2024.