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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kenilworth Castle from the South-East 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kenilworth Castle from the South-East’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Kenilworth Castle from the South-East 1830
D22035
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 32a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘nard | 20’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Kenilworth Castle is seen from the south-east, with Leicester’s Building on the left and the Great Tower on the north side of the inner court on the right. The sketch continues a little way onto folio 33 recto opposite (D22036), although it appears to have been drawn over subsequently with a nearby view.
Most of the sketches between folios 27 recto (D22024) and 37 verso (D22045) show Kenilworth. For the history of the castle and Turner’s subsequent watercolour, which Eric Shanes has described as a ‘synthesis’ of sketches between folios 28 verso (D22027) and 37 verso,1 see under folio 29 recto (D22028).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

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Shanes 1979, p.156

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Kenilworth Castle from the South-East 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-kenilworth-castle-from-the-south-east-r1148676, accessed 23 April 2024.