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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kenilworth Castle: The Great Hall 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kenilworth Castle: The Great Hall’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Kenilworth Castle: The Great Hall 1830
D22037
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 33a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘nard | 20’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this drawing shows the ruined Great Hall of Kenilworth Castle, looking west from the south-west corner of the inner court. The upright structure right of centre is the bay window which would have illuminated the hall on the first floor.
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: The Great 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-kenilworth-castle-the-great-hall-r1148678, accessed 25 April 2024.