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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Arun, with Windmill in Mid-Distance c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Arun, with Windmill in Mid-Distance’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
The River Arun, with Windmill in Mid-Distance c.1824
D18446
Turner Bequest CCX 77
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 75 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue B’ | ‘Blue’ | ‘yellow’ | ‘Red’ | ‘[?gold]’ | ‘Dim Cloud & P]’ | ‘[...]’ top left to right, ‘L[...] Arun’ | ‘Green Black’ centre towards top, left to right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘77’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 77’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With swift and cursory handling, here Turner has rendered a series of views of the Arun Valley near Arundel, West Sussex. The sketches have been produced with the book turned upside down. The uppermost drawing is a sky study with numerous colour notes recording ‘Blue’, ‘yelow’, ‘Red’ and ‘gold’ light as well as ‘ Dim Cloud’.
These sketches are associated with Turner’s watercolour designs for W.B. Cooke’s Rivers of England print series: Arundel Castle on the River Arun, with a Rainbow (Tate D18139; Turner Bequest CCVIII F) and Arundel Castle on the River Arun (Tate D18140; Turner Bequest CCVIII G). 1 For other sketches of Arundel Castle in this book see Tate D18419–D18461; Turner Bequest CCX 63–84a. See also Tate D22819–D22820, D22847–D22848, D22881–D22884, D22887, D22900–D22901, D22936, D23002–D23010; Turner Bequest CCXLV 21a–22, 38a–39, 60a–62, 63a, 70a–71, CCXLVI 22, 86a–91.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

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See Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Arundel Castle on the River Arun, with a Rainbow c.1824–5 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-arundel-castle-on-the-river-arun-with-a-rainbow-r1146205 and Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Arundel Castle, on the River Arun c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-arundel-castle-on-the-river-arun-r1146206

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The River Arun, with Windmill in Mid-Distance c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-river-arun-with-windmill-in-mid-distance-r1181331, accessed 24 October 2025.