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

Drawing from a lofty vantage point in the hills, here Turner has rendered a prospect of Arundel Park and Castle in West Sussex (see Tate D18418; Turner Bequest CCX 63). Turner has taken the sketch from behind the Castle, a viewpoint which afforded him the fullest extent of the Arun valley and the English Channel in the distance (see Tate D18430, D18432; Turner Bequest CCX 69, 70). The drawing is associated with Turner’s watercolour designs for W.B. Cooke’s Rivers of England, in particular Arundel Castle on the River Arun (Tate D18140; Turner Bequest CCVIII G). 1

For other sketches of Arundel Castle in this book see Tate D18419–D18461; Turner Bequest CCX 63–84a. See also Tate D22819–D22820, D22847–D22848, D22881–D22884, D22887, D22900–D22901, D22936, D23002–D23010; Turner Bequest CCXLV 21a–22, 38a–39, 60a–62, 63a, 70a–71, CCXLVI 22, 86a–91.