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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Deal Castle beyond the Royal Naval Hospital and a Windmill, with Boats on the Beach towards Walmer 1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Deal Castle beyond the Royal Naval Hospital and a Windmill, with Boats on the Beach towards Walmer’ 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 278 Verso:
Deal Castle beyond the Royal Naval Hospital and a Windmill, with Boats on the Beach towards Walmer 1825
D19392
Turner Bequest CCXIV 278a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 155 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, Deal Castle is seen to the north beyond a windmill above the beach, with boats drawn up in the foreground. To the left, the cupola belongs to the Napoleonic Royal Naval Hospital, later part of the Royal Marine Depot and now flats off the Strand just within the neighbouring parish of Walmer south-west of the castle, which is obscured by later houses from this angle.
Whether through uncertainty as to which castle is shown or the status of the boundary, Finberg identified the setting as ‘Deal (? Walmer)’.1 There is a prospect from further off on folio 279 recto opposite (D19393), and views of the similar Walmer Castle, a little over a mile south, on folios 279 verso–280 verso (D19394–D19396). For other views of Deal on adjacent pages and elsewhere, see under folio 273 recto (D19382), and see the sketchbook’s Introduction for discussion of its many shipping studies.

Matthew Imms
September 2020

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.661.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Deal Castle beyond the Royal Naval Hospital and a Windmill, with Boats on the Beach towards Walmer 1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2020, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-deal-castle-beyond-the-royal-naval-hospital-and-a-windmill-r1202744, accessed 16 June 2026.