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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Warwick: The Castle beyond the Avon Bridge; Churches 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Warwick: The Castle beyond the Avon Bridge; Churches’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Warwick: The Castle beyond the Avon Bridge; Churches 1830
D22049
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘1416’ bottom left
Inscribed in pencil ‘123’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page comprises various separate sketches of Warwick. At the bottom left Warwick Castle is seen to the west from east of the Avon bridge. At the top left is a detail of the tower of St Mary’s Church, with what appears to be a view of a receding street beside it; and at the top right is St Nicholas’s Church from the south (a view now obscured by trees).
At the right, St Nicholas’s appears again from the south-east, inverted relative to the other views, in a brief continuation of the prospect of the castle and town on folio 40 recto opposite (D22050). For other views of Warwick, see under folio 38 verso (D22047).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Warwick: The Castle beyond the Avon Bridge; Churches 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-warwick-the-castle-beyond-the-avon-bridge-churches-r1148690, accessed 19 April 2024.