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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ruined Castle and other Buildings on a Hill: ?Ludlow 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ruined Castle and other Buildings on a Hill: ?Ludlow’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Verso:
A Ruined Castle and other Buildings on a Hill: ?Ludlow 1798
D01450
Turner Bequest XXXIX 87v
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Part watermark ‘1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg suggested that this drawing shows Denbigh;1 it may be Ludlow.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.91.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Ruined Castle and other Buildings on a Hill: ?Ludlow 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-ruined-castle-and-other-buildings-on-a-hill-ludlow-r1173686, accessed 22 September 2024.