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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Margate, London and Surrey c.1829-45 > Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Walmer Castle c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Walmer Castle’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
?Walmer Castle c.1830
D35795
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 76 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘20’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXIII – 20’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, these rather hurried, perfunctory sketches appear to represent different aspects of the same building, described by Finberg only as ‘Ruins’;1 the subject may be the Tudor fortifications of Walmer Castle, on the Kent coast near Deal (see under folio 4 recto; D35763). Compare the detailed views in the 1825 Holland sketchbook (Tate D19394–D19396; Turner Bequest CCXIV 279a, 280, 280a).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

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Finberg 1909, II, p.1177.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Walmer Castle c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-walmer-castle-r1183759, accessed 20 September 2024.