Joseph Mallord William Turner

Tamworth Castle, St Editha’s Church and Ladybridge

1830

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Kenilworth Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 120 × 203 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D22079
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 55

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, Tamworth Castle and St Editha’s Church are seen to the north-west across the River Anker, with Ladybridge on the left. Eric Shanes1 has associated this sketch with Turner’s England and Wales watercolour of Tamworth, which is described under its main source, folio 52 verso (D22072; CCXXXVIII 51c); the present prospect is from some way further east, from where trees and later developments now obscure the view. Other Tamworth sketches are discussed under D22072.

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Shanes 1979, p.156; Shanes 1990, pp.217, 285 note 158.

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