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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The View from Dudley Castle towards Wednesbury 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The View from Dudley Castle towards Wednesbury’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
?The View from Dudley Castle towards Wednesbury 1830
D22101
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 65
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘65’ bottom left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 65’ 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As part of unpublished Turner research informed by local knowledge, Dr Bernard Richards1 has suggested that the view here is north-east from Dudley Castle towards Wednesbury, although much later development complicates any matching the rather slight features indicated by Turner to the modern prospect.
For other views of Dudley see under folio 23 recto (D22016).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

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Conversation with the author, 14 May 2013.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The View from Dudley Castle towards Wednesbury 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-the-view-from-dudley-castle-towards-wednesbury-r1148742, accessed 24 April 2024.