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Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a view of the west side of the interior of Kenilworth Castle’s Great Hall. There is a fireplace at the centre, with the blank arcade of the once-vaulted cellars below. Towards the left on the main level is the archway leading to the Saintlowe Tower, from which Turner drew a view looking across the hall in the opposite direction on folio 34 recto (
D22038). There is another view of this archway on the verso of the present page (
D22041).
The westward prospect of the castle on folio 34 verso opposite (
D22039) continues a little way onto the present page, where trees frame the view. At the bottom right is a slight plan or diagram of part of the castle, which continues opposite.
Most of the sketches between folios 27 recto (
D22024) and 37 verso (
D22045) show Kenilworth. For the history of the castle and Turner’s subsequent watercolour, which Eric Shanes has described as a ‘synthesis’ of sketches between folios 28 verso (
D22027) and 37 verso,
1 see under folio 29 recto (
D22028).
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