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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Orford Castle c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Orford Castle’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Verso:
Orford Castle c.1824
D18308
Turner Bequest CCIX 88a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 115 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has studied the Castle at Orford on the Suffolk North Sea Coast. These sketches and others (Tate D18304–D18307, D18309; Turner Bequest CCIX 86a–88, 89) are associated with a vignette watercolour of Orford Haven produced in around 1827 for the East Coast series (see general introduction) and the highly finished watercolour Orford, Suffolk of the same date intended for the England and Wales print publication project.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
Wilton 1979, p.393 no.796 and Krause 1997, p.162 no.49.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Orford Castle c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-orford-castle-r1181190, accessed 23 April 2024.