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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner In Arundel Park c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘In Arundel Park’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
In Arundel Park c.1824
D18432
Turner Bequest CCX 70
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘WDC’ top left (inverted), ‘High Hals [...]’ far right centre towards top
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘70’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 70’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
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–D18431; Turner Bequest CCX 69–69a).
There are two thumbnail sketches of Arundel Park rendered at top right and top left, the latter produced with the book turned upright in accordance with the foliation. The jottings are inscribed ‘WDC’ and ‘High Hals [...]’. The drawings are 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.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

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See Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Arundel Castle, on the River Arun c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-arundel-castle-on-the-river-arun-r1146206

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘In Arundel Park c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-in-arundel-park-r1181317, accessed 26 April 2024.