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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Richmond Hill; Hastings to Margate ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Windsor Castle from the North-West and Related Sketches c.1816-19

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windsor Castle from the North-West and Related Sketches’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Windsor Castle from the North-West and Related Sketches circa 1816–19
D10433
Turner Bequest CXL 12a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 155 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Various sketches are drawn here, a larger outline of Windsor Castle from the north-west, another, smaller above, and superimposed on these two other ranges of buildings related to those on folio 13 of the sketchbook (D10434) and drawn with the page inverted. For Windsor Castle in this sketchbook and a connection with Turner’s watercolour (British Museum, London)1 engraved by William Miller in 1831 for Picturesque Views in England and Wales, see note to folio 9 verso (D10427).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.397 no.829.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Windsor Castle from the North-West and Related Sketches c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-windsor-castle-from-the-north-west-and-related-sketches-r1131416, accessed 26 April 2024.