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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hornby Castle and Village from the West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hornby Castle and Village from the West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
Hornby Castle and Village from the West 1816
D11134
Turner Bequest CXLV 64
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘stone’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘64’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV 64’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a record of the view of Hornby Castle from the left bank of the river Wenning, with Hornby Church to the left (and a detail of the church tower above) and Hornby Bridge to the right. This sketch, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is upside-down in relation to the main sequence (see the sketchbook’s Introduction).
For general notes on the castle, see under the verso (D11135). The present author has dated Turner’s sketches at Hornby to Friday 9 August 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.90–3.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Hornby Castle and Village from the West 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, 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-hornby-castle-and-village-from-the-west-r1201720, accessed 05 April 2026.