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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Ivy-Clad Castle or Manor House on a Hill 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Ivy-Clad Castle or Manor House on a Hill’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
An Ivy-Clad Castle or Manor House on a Hill 1798
D01542
Turner Bequest XL 47a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘46’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 47 a’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation and continued on folio 50 recto opposite (D01543; Turner Bequest XL 48), this is one of the sequence of rapid sketches of uncertain topographical subjects made by Turner in this sketchbook, probably in the Vale of Usk and along the Taff: see folios 34 verso–35 recto, 35 verso–36 recto, 47 recto and 47 verso–48 recto (D01518–D01521, D01538–D01540; Turner Bequest XL 32a–33, 33a–34, 45, 45a–46).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘An Ivy-Clad Castle or Manor House on a Hill 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-an-ivy-clad-castle-or-manor-house-on-a-hill-r1173781, accessed 20 April 2024.